Some media outlets reported this week that the birth
rate in the United States has hit a 25-year low because of the economy.
Asian and non-Hispanic white women with some college
showed increases in birthrates, but Hispanic women, now reeling from weaker
employment, declined. So the patterns of
population decried by the right wing (“the
right babies” argument) as falling into racial lines does not always hold.
A company called Demographic Intelligence provides
(at large cost) a U.S. Fertility Forecast (actually trademarked), as explained
at the company’s brief site here.
The LDS Deseret News, obviously interested in such
matters for religious reasons, has an interpretive story by Lois M. Collins
here.
USA Today has a detailed story by Haya el Nasser
(Thursday) here.
An important aspect of the issue is that women often
want the children but tend to put them off until older when they think they
will be better prepared economically. But the biological clock can run out.
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