{"id":33767,"date":"2012-07-29T00:40:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T00:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/americans_put_off_having_babies_amid_poor_economy\/"},"modified":"2012-07-29T00:40:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T00:40:24","slug":"americans_put_off_having_babies_amid_poor_economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33767","title":{"rendered":"Americans put off having babies amid poor economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-somethings who postponed having babies because of the poor economy are still hesitant to jump in to parenthood \u201d\u201d an unexpected consequence that has dropped the USA&#8217;s birthrate to its lowest point in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The fertility rate is not expected to rebound for at least two years and could affect birthrates for years to come, according to Demographic Intelligence, a Charlottesville, Va., company that produces quarterly birth forecasts for consumer products and pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer and Procter &#038; Gamble.<\/p>\n<p>Marketers track fertility trends closely because they affect sales of thousands of products from diapers, cribs and minivans to baby bottles, toys and children&#8217;s pain relievers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/story\/2012-07-25\/low-US-birthrate-economy\/56488980\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-somethings who postponed having babies because of the poor economy are still hesitant to jump in to parenthood \u201d\u201d an unexpected consequence that has dropped the USA&#8217;s birthrate to its lowest point in 25 years. The fertility rate is not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33767\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,101,149,600,597,98,593,129,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-personal-finance","category-psychology","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}