Women starting their families later in life

Did you know that in the United States, the average age of a mother at first birth has increased 3.6 years since 1970? Not only are U.S. women starting their families later in life, but the trend depends a great deal on a person’s race/ethnicity and where she lives. Also, the U.S. has a much lower average age at first birth than many developed countries. To read more about this, visit the new Data Brief from the National Center for Health statistics, “Delayed Childbearing: Women Are Having Their First Child Later in life.” Also, you can listen to the Statcast or ask questions of the author on this blog.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 at 1:19 pm and is filed under Births, children, Data Briefs, first birth, Mothers, STATCASTS, Vital Statistics System. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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