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Posted on 04/24/2025 7:09:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After years of ominous headlines about the world's shrinking birth rates, there's a bright spot. The US birth rate increased slightly in 2024, according to preliminary data from the CDC.
The 1% rise in births was largely driven by moms in their early 40s, who gave birth to 2% more children in 2024 than in 2023. Moms in their 30s and late 20s also experienced slight increases in births.
Brady Hamilton, the lead author of the report, told Business Insider that the stats are a continuation of the trends of the last three decades.
Women in their late 20s to early 40s are having more kids, while those in their teens and early 20s are having fewer. These numbers "support the contention that women are having children at later points in their lives," he said.
Millennial moms are leading the way
While millennials are having fewer kids compared to past generations, they're still having more kids than Gen Zers.
In 2024, the CDC found that women between 30 and 36 had the most kids, followed by moms in their late 20s (the oldest of Gen Zers).
Emily Oster, the founder of ParentData.org, a best-selling author, and a professor of economics at Brown University, told BI that the CDC's data points to two big trends.
One is that people are choosing to have kids later: Fertility peaks in your early 20s, yet women in those age groups have been having fewer kids since the 1990s.
At the same time, medical developments have given people more control over when they have kids, if at all, Oster said.
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How many Mohammeds?
Sorry, moms over 40 having a child doesn’t really cut it, because they ae so much older than their children. I also question the bonding between mother & child being as strong as it would have been at a younger age.
Those in their teens having fewer is good news, since most of those are single high school students or dropouts.
My mother had me at 39 in 1954, making her probably the oldest one in the maternity ward. I asked her about it, and she said she was exhausted all the time and having babies is for young women. These mothers are in for a long, hard slog. God bless ‘em.
RE: I also question the bonding between mother & child being as strong as it would have been at a younger age.
My cousin ( now 66 years old and retired ), has 2 children. Both born later in her life ( older one, a boy born when she was 37, younger one, a girl, born when she was 41 ).
The kids were raised right and are still close to her even when one of them already has children.
It’s hard to generalize. Depends on how you raise your kids,
“I also question the bonding between mother & child being as strong as it would have been at a younger age.”
Where is the evidence that older mothers don’t bond with their children?
The ignored problem is the spikes shedding from the ‘jabbed’ CoVID carriers will affect maternity rates very negatively.
I have a friend who was 50 when her surprise first child (gift from God) was born. She’s a great mom and the whole family is very close. Even the grandparents! Because they are older, they are more financially stable and able to do a lot more with her.
It may not be quite as strong but my wife was just over 40 when she gave birth to her first and only child. The bonds between her and our son are very very strong. I think my bonds are pretty strong too but I am not sure what my son would say!
It’s much ore likely that the increase was anchor babies.
Most of them, I bet.
More where the heart is than how many swings around the sun, pretty much between any two sentient beings.
My wife's mother was 42 when my wife was born and 45 when her sister was born. My wife's grandmother was 37 when her mother was born and in her 40s when two of my wife's aunts were born. My wife's grandmother was born in 1877. Yet the bonds in their family were very strong between mother and children. I often kid my wife that she should have been born in the 1940s or even earlier instead of in the mid 1950s.
And indeed, she has a build and face that have always seemed to be from an earlier time period which is part of what attracted me to her. This is reinforced by her obsessive interest in vintage fashion and history in general. She is a well-known personality who frequently sets up displays and gives presentations at museums, schools and for many types of groups and organizations. I spend much of my time working as her roadie.
There are of course disadvantages to having children at a later age, but I do not believe that the bond between mother and child is one of them. My wife and I did not wait to have kids, so we already had grandkids when we were in our 40s, one of them has already been married for years and has promised us great-grandkids but sadly, I suspect the multiple Covid jabs caused issues with their fertility. This is the giant elephant in the room in any conversation on fertility and is one of the issues that is most vehemently denied by the pushers of the medical experiment foisted on the world. Yet everywhere Covid vaccines were most prevalent saw large decreases in fertility.
RE: How many Mohammeds?
I think there will be more named Juan, Carlos or Pedro. 😝
I see this with my 33-year old daughter who is expecting her first baby. She has seven friends, her age, all either pregnant, new moms or on kids number two or three.
All are married.
The fertility trend was already downward in most of Europe. But at this point with the Herculean efforts that have been made to "hide the decline" associated with the Covid jabs... One of the motivations of lefty eco-fascists forcing young people who faced very little risk from Covid itself to be vaccinated if they wanted to go to school or get a job would seems to be fairly clear.
Modern conveniences have made being a mother much easier on mothers. I raised my three children, I was 50 when my youngest turned 18.
And I raised 3 of my grandchildren. I raised children for over 40 years. By then I was exhausted, but not in my 40s.
I am glad I wasn’t birthing children in my 40s but raising them was not a problem.
How many of the babies will go directly to day care by persons who cannot speak good English?
If there weren’t so many abortions, there would be no crisis in birthrate. In fact, we’d have a too many babies crisis.
But, why worry about it? We had a huge rise in population from the Biden open border policy. We got some 15-20 million additions to our population. And most of them are here to stay.
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