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May 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda FRIDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) — An increasing number of
college-educated American women in their late 30s and 40s are having
children, a new study shows.
The findings may represent a turnaround from previous decades, when the
trend was for college-educated women to have fewer children, the
researchers noted.
They analyzed long-term national data and found that childlessness
among college-educated women peaked in the late 1990s, when about 30
percent had no children. Between 1998 and 2008, the proportion of women in
this group who did not have children fell by about 5 percent.
“We may be seeing the beginning of a new trend,” study co-author Bruce
Weinberg, an economics professor at Ohio State University, said in a
university news release.
“One of the major economic stories of the second half of the 20th
century was that highly educated women were working more and having fewer
children. It is too early to definitively say that trend is over, but
there is no doubt we have seen fertility rise among older, highly educated
women,” he noted.
The data do not reveal whether older, highly-educated women are leaving
the labor market to have children, or are continuing to work.
The fact that fertility treatments have become more accessible and
affordable in recent years may help explain why more women in their late
30s and 40s are having children, the researchers suggested.
However, that’s not the only reason.
“Although our estimates are not exact, it is clear that there was an
increase in older women having children even after taking into account the
fact that fertility treatments are more accessible and affordable,”
Weinberg said. “Fertility treatments contributed, but it isn’t the only
factor.”
The study appeared online April 23 in the the Journal of Population
Economics.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers tips for a
healthy pregnancy.
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