CBS News’ 60 Minutes Overtime interviewed the Carsey School’s Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson to find out what’s happening with American women between the ages of 20-29 who are having fewer babies and may be opting out of having children altogether. 60 Minutes Overtime reports, “Johnson commented that finding out what’s happening among this particular age group is the "big question" and many factors are at play. He pointed to one trend that could explain part of it: many young women are delaying marriage, and a significant share of that group is delaying having children. And within those marriages, the time taken between marriage and childbirth is now longer than it has historically been. ‘In a sense, it’s just pushing everything further out,’ he told 60 Minutes Overtime. And despite more women in their late 30s having children, ‘it’s not making up for fertility declines among younger women,’ he said. ‘What’s coming to appear is that a lot of these babies are just going to be forgone entirely. They’re not going to be born.’”
