“Women who turned 45 in 2016 had an average of 1.80 children, down from 2.21 for their mothers’ generation, who turned 45 in 1944.”
Someone’s math is off.
I see that now. I didn’t write the article. probably meant to say grandmother or great grandmother.
There are not a whole lot of mothers alive today that were born in 1899.
Well, math is hard.