{"id":7993,"date":"2008-08-19T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/more_women_than_ever_are_childless_census_finds\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T17:49:55","slug":"more_women_than_ever_are_childless_census_finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7993","title":{"rendered":"More Women Than Ever Are Childless, Census Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201d\u201d an average of 1.9 children, compared with the median of 3.1 children in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of women are not having any children,\u201d\u009d said Jane Lawler Dye, a Census Bureau researcher who did the report, which looked at women of childbearing age in 2006. \u201cIt used to be sort of expected that there was a phase of life where you had children, and a lot of women aren\u2019t doing that now,\u201d\u009d Ms. Dye said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/19\/us\/19census.html?_r=1&#038;ref=us&#038;oref=slogin\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7993\">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":[39,50,209,101,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-marriage-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993","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=7993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}