Baby Boom 2.0!

[amicus]

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=5399077&page=1

The National Center for Health Statistics — just reported a population milestone. In 2007, a record number of 4,315,000 babies were born in the United States. With more babies born last year than any other year in U.S. history, nearly doubling the number born century ago, signs point to a potential start of a new American baby boom.

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Interestingly 40 percent, about two million babies were born to unwed mothers and an increased number of 'teen', births were noted.



Ami...

 

[Liar]

Commence the blame-feat in 3...2...

Who will be tagged first, the "morally relativist libtards" or the "religionut abstinence-only rightwing yahoos"?

Popcorn is ready. Please continue.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

How many are American?

 

[amicus]

Another interesting factoid in that piece or another like it or the newscast crawler I saw...dunno...but the American woman now delivers 2.1 children, which, if I recall, is up substantially from the 1.3 per woman some time back.

and yes, would be interesting to know the answers to all the queries while munching popcorn.

ami

 

[JamesSD]

""In the '50s, the average woman was having close to four children. Now she's having close to two," Engelman said.

The overall population is nearly double what it was in the '50s, which means even though parents are having fewer children, the numbers add up. "

So basically the birth rate is about 50.1% of what it was in the 50s?