{"id":49671,"date":"2015-05-04T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_2012_20-somethings_had_children_at_the_slowest_pace_of_any_generation_in\/"},"modified":"2015-05-04T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T00:00:18","slug":"in_2012_20-somethings_had_children_at_the_slowest_pace_of_any_generation_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49671","title":{"rendered":"In 2012, 20-somethings had children at the slowest pace of any generation in US history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That the Great Recession of 2007-09 made Americans have fewer kids is no surprise, but a new study shows how big the toll was.<\/p>\n<p>Birth rates for U.S. women in their 20s dropped more than 15% between 2007 and 2012, just before and after the recession, the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan policy research group, said in a new analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control &#038; Prevention released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Among Hispanic 20-somethings, the birth rate dropped 26%. Non-Hispanic blacks? 14%. By contrast, non-Hispanic white 20-somethings saw an 11% decline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2015\/04\/28\/just-how-much-did-the-recession-make-20-somethings-delay-children\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That the Great Recession of 2007-09 made Americans have fewer kids is no surprise, but a new study shows how big the toll was. Birth rates for U.S. women in their 20s dropped more than 15% between 2007 and 2012,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49671\">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":[39,40,50,209,175,101,149,168,104,133,98,129,109,596,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-children","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-sociology","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49671","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=49671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}