Births are falling because marriage is falling

Births are falling because marriage is falling


American women are having fewer children today than at any other time in recorded history, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday. 

Amazingly the ten-page report completely fails to mention the driving cause of the birth dearth: the parallel record low of households headed by married couples.

The math is simple. Women who get married earlier in life, start giving birth earlier and end up with larger families. Half of women who get married in their early 20s end up having at least three children, compared to just 33% of women who get married after 30. More than 60% of women who get married in their 30s have two children or less.

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And of course, married women are much

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