{"id":45596,"date":"2014-08-14T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/more_middle-aged_u-s-_women_having_babies_outside_marriage_cdc\/"},"modified":"2014-08-14T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T00:00:37","slug":"more_middle-aged_u-s-_women_having_babies_outside_marriage_cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45596","title":{"rendered":"More middle-aged U.S. women having babies outside marriage: CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmmmm. Having children is now categorized as women successfully “meeting their fertility goals.” Doesn’t matter how you do it, it’s all about choice and personal satisfaction. SAD. -the elves<\/i><\/p>\n

More single U.S. women over the age of 35 are having children, even as the overall birth rates for unmarried women in the United States have dropped, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. There were 1.6 million births to unmarried women in 2013, the lowest since 2005, when there were 1.5 million, the data showed.<\/p>\n

Running counter to the trend were middle-aged and older women having children outside of marriage. The birth rate for unmarried women between the ages of 40 to 44 increased 29 percent from 2007 to 2012 and 7 percent during that time for those aged 35 to 39, the CDC said.<\/p>\n

“Many women are postponing births until their 30s, and the stigma of having a child outside of marriage has faded,” said Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University who has studied the issue but was not involved with the CDC report.<\/p>\n

Women who choose to give birth at an older age now have greater medical options for increasing fertility, said Sally Curtin, a CDC statistician and an author of the study. “There’s more out there for women to meet their fertility goals,” she said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Hmmmm. Having children is now categorized as women successfully “meeting their fertility goals.” Doesn’t matter how you do it, it’s all about choice and personal satisfaction. SAD. -the elves More single U.S. women over the age of 35 are having…<\/span><\/p>\n

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