More U.S. Women Are Going Childless

[Alan C.]

More U.S. Women Are Going Childless
 

The percentage of U.S. women in their 30s and 40s who are childless is rising, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau show.

Some 15.3% of U.S. women aged 40 to 44 were childless in June 2014, up from 15.1% in 2012.

Changes in Census’s data processing likely affected its estimates for 2010 to 2012. But even before that, the trend was up: 9.6% of women in this age group were childless in 2010, up from 9.2% in 2008.

For women in their late 30s, the rise in childlessness is sharper. Around 18.5% of women 35 to 39 were childless last June, up from 17.2% in 2012.

All told, 47.6% of U.S. women aged 15 to 44 were without children last year, up from 46.5% in 2012.

The data are the latest to show that childlessness is on the rise in the U.S. as more women (and their partners) delay marriage and childbearing.

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With more women having their first child in their mid 30s, late 30s and early 40s, American families may be shrinking: The number of women aged 40 to 44 who had only one child roughly doubled between 1976 and 2014, Census said.

 

Unfortunately, people who should be procreating aren't, and people who shouldn't be are.

[J. D. Stembal]

There are seventeen woman not mentioned by name in this article who were not disciplined enough to use birth control, and it's the man that needs a vasectomy.

 

We're gonna need a bigger facepalm.

[Better Future]

Disproportionate reproduction at the lower end of the socio-economic scale appears to be cancelling out any positive impact we can have.

[fractional slacker]

Mormons and Muslims.  It's difficult to not be cynical.

[drkmdn]

We prefer the term 'childfree'. Ha.