- 50% of American women said they think they will have a baby
- In 2002, 46% of women said the same, a statistically significant difference
- Experts say it could be to do with better feelings about the economy and rapidly advancing fertility treatments
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More US women want to have children today than they did 10 years ago, according to new federal data.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found fifty per cent of women aged between 15 and 44 years old expect to have a child.
That is a marked increase from 2002, when 46 per cent said they would eventually start a family.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found fifty per cent of women aged between 15 and 44 years old expect to have a child – up from 46 per cent in 2002
Experts say this could largely to be linked to the state of the economy, with families feeling more confident that they could support one or two children.
It could also be a nod to rapidly advanced fertility treatment techniques, allowing women to bypass fertility issues or have babies later on.
‘It’s not a huge increase but it is a statistically significant increase,’ one of the study’s authors, Jill Daugherty, said.
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The increase could indicate a higher U.S. birth rate at some point in the future, Daugherty said.
The overall number of U.S. births declined slightly in 2015 to 3.97 million from 3.98 million the year before, according to the CDC.
The drop followed an increase in 2014, the first since 2007, the agency said.
Since 2002, there has also been a slight decrease in the statistical average number of children women expect to have, from 2.3 to 2.2, according to the survey of 5,699 women.
As women age, their expectations for having children decrease regardless of how many children they already have, the study found.
More than two-thirds of married women did not expect to have a child in the future and 82 per cent of women who already had two children did not expect to have another, it found.
The rate of births to teenage mothers in the United States has dropped dramatically in recent years to record lows.
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