Janna Weaver is proud she\u2019s managed to keep her bamboo plant alive for more than a year. She\u2019s not quite ready for a pet yet, and a child? \u201cDefinitely not anytime soon.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to know who I am before I bring someone else into the equation,\u201d\u009d said Weaver, 25, who has a master\u2019s degree in exercise physiology and moved with her boyfriend to Dallas in July. \u201cThe longer I wait and the more established I am, the more I\u2019ll be able to provide for the family.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
More U.S. millennial women, those born after 1980, are holding off on motherhood, which bodes well for their economic and social mobility and that of their future children, according to recent research. Odds are that lower U.S. birth rates are here to stay, even if some of the recession-induced decline reverses, said Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.<\/p>\n