JMarkOckerbloom, 27 days ago @mekkaokereke While I don't consider either birth or immigration rates to be in "crisis", and I'm glad teen pregnancy is down, the vast majority of births in the US involve neither teens nor folks over 40. Looking at the CDC report, the highest birth rates are for 25-35 (with 20-24 & 35-39 about half theirs) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr035.pdf and compared to 2006 (a reference year in another table I found: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-have-us-fertility-and-birth-rates-changed-over-time/ ) all those are down (some by a lot) except 35-39, which is about the same.
@mekkaokereke While I don't consider either birth or immigration rates to be in "crisis", and I'm glad teen pregnancy is down, the vast majority of births in the US involve neither teens nor folks over 40.
Looking at the CDC report, the highest birth rates are for 25-35 (with 20-24 & 35-39 about half theirs) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr035.pdf and compared to 2006 (a reference year in another table I found: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-have-us-fertility-and-birth-rates-changed-over-time/ ) all those are down (some by a lot) except 35-39, which is about the same.