Posted on 08/19/2008 6:54:24 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Women are waiting longer to have children, and more women than ever are choosing not to have children at all, according to a new Census Bureau report.
Twenty percent of women ages 40 to 44 have no children, double the level of 30 years ago, the report said; and women in that age bracket who do have children have fewer than ever — an average of 1.9 children, compared with the median of 3.1 children in 1976.
“A lot of women are not having any children,” said Jane Lawler Dye, a Census Bureau researcher who did the report, which looked at women of childbearing age in 2006. “It used to be sort of expected that there was a phase of life where you had children, and a lot of women aren’t doing that now,” Ms. Dye said.
Women with advanced degrees are more likely to be childless, the study found. Of women 40 to 44 with graduate or professional degrees, 27 percent are childless, compared with 18 percent of women who did not continue their education beyond high school, the data show.
The numbers are consistent with a 2006 report Ms. Dye issued on the same subject. While year-by-year change is slow, Ms. Dye said, the data show that women of the baby boom generation are continuing to transform the American family.
Hispanic women are the only group bucking the trends found in the study, averaging 2.3 children each by their 40s. The number of children a Hispanic woman has decreases sharply, however, depending on how many generations her family has lived in the United States, the data show.
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We’re doing our best with 4 homeschooled kids.
They then focus their energy on “getting” YOUR kids.
That way, they can pass on their values while still living a narcissistic lifestyle.
hurrah, kudos, and GOD BLESS!
After 45 million abortions since Roe v. Wade, a huge number. And don't forget that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer and the incidence of endometriosis.
And, with STD infection rates at 50% or higher among sexually promiscuous young adults, many women are or will be sterile, also.
Which is why we homeschool. ;) (see my borrowed tagline)
I find it interesting that the % of childless women is about the same percentage of women with STDs.
NAH! You miss the point.
If they were intelligent , they WOULD be having children.
These women are less intelligent, and their genes deserve to enter the Darwinian scrap pile.
And on top of all that they likely have been so disintelligent as to create the very gurly men that they are loath to marry.
(I mean, Maureen O'Dowd went to Australia looking for a lumberjack type, she would have no truck with the panseys that feminist culture had created.)
Darwin Award in Order!
I wish I had children. I have never been married so no kids for me.
The reason is that when they become divorced, single parents, they want the government to be their husband and take care of them and to be the father and raise their children.
I don't know if this is true, but it sounded cool.
The left (feminism) has pushed the idea of career fulfillment over family, or at least the lie that you can do both.
My assertion stands. The valuing of career over family is simply a reflection of social policies and cultural moves that have encouraged this attitude. It is not just something that happened in a vacuum.
I think it is more about timing. Pursue the degrees after you have started a family. Having children is for the young. It's hard work.
BTW, I've been advising my sons that it is much smarter not to pursue career women. Life is much more fulfilling with a family.
Not if they have husbands!! LOLOL
I had to laugh at your comment...:)
“Did Rome REALLY fall because of homosexuality???? I think that is a myth.”
No Rome fell apart due to the complete disintegration of their culture and morality. Acceptance of things like homosexuality contributed to the downfall but were not the root cause.
JMHO
It’s pretty hard to find a “non-career” woman with above average intelligence today. People consider it almost a sin for a girl to be family orientated. At least here in the PRNYC.
Most men don’t want to marry young and women don’t want to wait for them.
Don't fall into the trap of the fear of change. The sons and daughters of the new immigrants (legal & illegal) will marry children of other ancestry. The children of the various waves of european immigrants did the same thing. The country has always thrived on new blood.
In the present culture war, it is far more important to pass on your values than your genes.
I'll second that. Consider the Reagans, Michael and Ron, Jr. One has the genes, one has the values.
Only if you have a bias against traditional values. There are lots of places to look church, family friends, personal friends, at work.
Most men don’t want to marry young and women don’t want to wait for them.
Ever hear the phrase, "I can't find a good man, they're all married"?
The smart guys find the right girl and settle down. The perpetual adolescents are never ready to grow up and become adults.
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