Childbearing Patterns Shifting

American women are waiting longer to have children and they are having fewer kids, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau reported in Work and Family Life (September 2011).  The trend is especially noticeable among women with college degrees.  More of them are waiting until after they have graduated, gotten married, and started a career before giving birth.

• In 2000, 42% of college-educated women between the ages of 25 and 34 had children.  Ten years later, this same group of women, now ages 35 to 44, was more likely to have children — 76% had become mothers by 2010.
• In 1976, more women had three children than two.  In 2010, far more women had two children than three.
• More unmarried women are having children.  In 1976, the figure was 3%.  Now it's 21%!
• Of the women who gave birth last year, 55% had jobs — 34% worked full time, 14% worked part time, and 7% were looking for work.

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