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- Title
First-Birth Rates Among Women Over 30 Are More Than Twice 1970 Levels.
- Authors
Remez, L.
- Abstract
The article presents a survey about first birth rate in the United States among women aged 30 or older. Nearly one in seven first births in the United States in 1986 occurred among women aged 30 or older, a proportion that has increased nearly fourfold since 1970.1 According to a report issued by the National Center for Health Statistics, the first-birth rate among women aged 30-34 increased by 140 percent over the period 1970-1986, while the first-birth rate among women aged 35-39 increased by 124 percent. These trends are primarily the result of increased marital dissolution rates and widespread postponement of marriage among young people; of the substantial increase in the numbers of women aged 25-39; and of the increased levels of educational attainment and labor force participation among women. The tendency to postpone childbearing is apparent in the related decline in the first-birth rate among younger women. The rate for 15-19-year-olds fell by 27 percent over the period, from 53.7 per 1,000 in 1970 to 39.1 per 1,000 in 1986, and the rate for 20-24-year-olds declined significantly as well, from 78.2 per 1,000 in 1970 to 52.7 per 1,000 in 1986. The first-birth rate for 25-29-year-old women, on the other hand, changed comparatively little since 1980.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FIRST-born children; AMERICAN women; MEDICAL statistics; BIRTH order; SOCIAL indicators; HEALTH surveys
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1990, Vol 22, Issue 4, p187
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135615