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Statistics reveal that industrialized societies, along with the emancipation of women, have brought about declining birth rates across the board.
Further, as women entered the workplace and became self supporting, that marriage and childbirth took place at a later date in a woman’s life than before.
Add to the above that a false political ideology, claiming over population was a threat to the future, seduced some couples into not having children.
A spate of later in life child bearing, into the mid and late 30’s and 40’s, indicates, to some, a remorse at not beginning a family earlier in life.
Not included in the links provided, is an emphasis on the percentage of Down Syndrome babies occurring at an increased rate coinciding with the postponement of child bearing; along with several other abnormalities, all tied to late in life child bearing.
Being an old ‘coot’, of an earlier generation in which marriage and childbirth began in the mid to late teens and a woman in her twenties without a child was seen as ‘unusual’, to be kind…
One of the links…I read several more than referenced... indicated the largest jump in delayed child bearing, 5.7 years, over a decade, raising the average age to over 25.
Aside from the abject ignorance concerning over-population, women going in debt to finance a college education eventuates a necessity of finding an income source, contributes to the delay in starting a family in many cases.
If memory serves, I read somewhere that over 40 percent of all births were by single women, with the Black and Latino population even higher percentages.
This phenomenon is of interest to me from a macro viewpoint concerning societal changes and the effects visited upon future generations as a result.
Objective, non personal, non emotional commentary, without personal anecdotes is welcome.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022203639.html
http://www.lilsugar.com/Ninety-Percent-Womans-Eggs-Gone-30-7214817
http://forums.bleachexile.com/archive/index.php/t-52882.html
http://delaware.momslikeme.com/members/JournalActions.aspx?g=247323&m=9953533&source=stream_rail
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Further, as women entered the workplace and became self supporting, that marriage and childbirth took place at a later date in a woman’s life than before.
Add to the above that a false political ideology, claiming over population was a threat to the future, seduced some couples into not having children.
A spate of later in life child bearing, into the mid and late 30’s and 40’s, indicates, to some, a remorse at not beginning a family earlier in life.
Not included in the links provided, is an emphasis on the percentage of Down Syndrome babies occurring at an increased rate coinciding with the postponement of child bearing; along with several other abnormalities, all tied to late in life child bearing.
Being an old ‘coot’, of an earlier generation in which marriage and childbirth began in the mid to late teens and a woman in her twenties without a child was seen as ‘unusual’, to be kind…
One of the links…I read several more than referenced... indicated the largest jump in delayed child bearing, 5.7 years, over a decade, raising the average age to over 25.
Aside from the abject ignorance concerning over-population, women going in debt to finance a college education eventuates a necessity of finding an income source, contributes to the delay in starting a family in many cases.
If memory serves, I read somewhere that over 40 percent of all births were by single women, with the Black and Latino population even higher percentages.
This phenomenon is of interest to me from a macro viewpoint concerning societal changes and the effects visited upon future generations as a result.
Objective, non personal, non emotional commentary, without personal anecdotes is welcome.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022203639.html
http://www.lilsugar.com/Ninety-Percent-Womans-Eggs-Gone-30-7214817
http://forums.bleachexile.com/archive/index.php/t-52882.html
http://delaware.momslikeme.com/members/JournalActions.aspx?g=247323&m=9953533&source=stream_rail
Amicus