Originally published, in a longer version, by RH Reality Check. New CDC birth data out last Wednesday confirm that the U.S. birthrate dropped one percent to reach an all-time low in 2011, extending the downward trend begun with the recession in 2008. Put down your knee-jerk fears about smaller population, though: This drop is a […]
Author: Elizabeth Gregory
Elizabeth Gregory directs the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Houston and is the author of Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood.