The Quartz: Americans have stopped having babies
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
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University of New Hampshire demographer Kenneth Johnson says the recession resulted in 2.3 million fewer babies over five years. He says a similar thing happened during the Great Depression. Women who were fertile during the Depression had some of the highest rates of childlessness ever recorded. But a decade later came the baby boom and the population recovered. This time may be different.
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