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Census Finds More Women Are Choosing to Be Childless; Others Opt for Fewer Children
By Kelley Colihan
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Aug. 20, 2008 -- Motherhood sure has changed in the past 30 years.
Today, U.S. women are having fewer babies, and more women are choosing to be childless.
A new report looking at state-by-state information from the U.S. Census Bureau paints a changing landscape of motherhood today when compared to the 1970s.
Consider this: 20% of women today aged 40 to 44 have no children. That percentage is double what it was 30 years ago.
The data are from the Census Bureau's 2006 American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey.
The surveys aimed to discover how many children are being born, to whom, and what the fertility rates are around the country.
Women aged 15 to 50 were surveyed about fertility between 2005 and 2006
More of the Highlights
The average number of children a woman aged 40-44 will have is 1.9.
* 67% of women who recently gave birth worked outside the home.
* 36% of women who reported giving birth for the survey were never married or were separated, divorced, or widowed.
* Mothers in North Carolina, Mississippi, and the District of Columbia were the least likely to have never married.
* Of those 1.5 million mothers who were not married, 190,000 of them were living with an unmarried partner.
Face of Poverty
* 25% of women aged 15-50 who'd recently given birth were living below the national poverty level.
* Fertility rates were twice as high for those living below the national poverty rate when compared to those living more than 200% above the poverty rate.
International Moms
* 20% of all births reported in the survey were to U.S. moms who themselves were born in another country.
* In California, that percentage doubled, with 41% of moms being foreign-born.
Who's Having the Most Children?
Hispanic women average the most children (2.3). That's higher than for Asians, non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans, although second-generation Hispanic women have fewer babies than their mothers did.
Delaying Babies for School
* Women with a bachelor's degree or more college education had the highest fertility rates between the ages of 30 and 34. (133 births per 1,000 women)
* Women who did not complete high school had the most birth rates between the ages of 20 and 24 and 25 to 29. (199 births per 1,000 women and 146 births per 1,000 women.) 本人已认领该文编译，48小时后若未提交译文，请其他战友自由认领。 为人母已非女性必由之路
Motherhood Not on Every Woman’s To-Do List
为人母已非女性必由之路
Census Finds More Women Are Choosing to Be Childless; Others Opt for Fewer Children
人口普查发现更多的女性不愿意做妈妈；其它女性则倾向于要更少的子女
By Kelley Colihan
Kelley Colihan报道
WebMD 这篇在编译时，把小标题加粗了，这样看起来醒目一些，也应该更负荷新闻的形式，但是我觉得，在语言文字的正式化和学术化方面还需要进一步努力，这样才能让它更像是一篇新闻。
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