The birth rate in the United States...

The birth rate in the United States has increased for women of all age clusters with the exception of teenagers, according to a Feb 12 2002 recents release from the National Center for Health Statistics. Data from a Center for Disease ascendency and Prevention report indicate that women are having more children now than at any time in almost the past 30 years.

from first to last the 1970s and 1980s, the average number of children born to US women during a lifetime was fewer than sum of two units In 2000, the average birth rate was 21 which is considered the rate of population replacement. The birth rate increased for the third consecutive year following nearly a decade of decline. reciprocally the birth rate for girls ages 15 to 19 malicious from a record high of 621 births through 1,000 girls in 1991 to 485 births by means of 1,000 girls in 2000, a decline of 22%

The report also includes the following findings.

* The percentage of women who smok during pregnancy was 122% in 2000 a decline of more than one-third since 1989

* The rate of triplet and higher-order multiple births has declined for the inferior year in a row, after large increases from 1980 to 1998

* The rate of cesarean deliveries has increased for four consecutive years, to nearly 23% in 2000

* Births to unmarried women accounted for 332% of total births in 2000

Women Are Having More Children, strange Report Shows Teen Births Continue to Decline (new release, Hyattsville, Md: Notional Center for Health Statistics, Feb 12 2002) http:/wwwcdcgov/nchs/releoses/02news/women births.htm (accessed 13 Feb 2002)

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