’07 U.S. Births Break Baby Boom Record

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More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than in any other year in American history, according to preliminary data reported Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics.

The 4,317,000 births in 2007 just edged out the figure for 1957, at the height of the baby boom. The increase reflected a slight rise in childbearing by women of all ages, including those in their 30s and 40s, and a record share of births to unmarried women.

But in contrast with the culturally transforming postwar boom, when a smaller population of women bore an average of three or four children, the recent increase mainly reflects a larger population of women of childbearing age, said Stephanie J. Ventura, chief of reproductive statistics at the center and an author of the new report. Today, the average woman has 2.1 children.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/health/19birth.html

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

That's good news. Now just give them 16 years to save us from the baby boom crisis and social security issues.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

How many of those were births by illegal aliens?

[Ban Hammer 13,403]

How many of those were births by illegal aliens?

good question.

[almaty 19]

who cares...the important thing is they weren't aborted!

[dalegg 143]

That's good news. Now just give them 16 years to save us from the baby boom crisis and social security issues.

Timing is about right. Some had said it would take 20 years to go bankrupt. Lets just hope we don't have 20% unemployment at that time.

[fozzie 41]

That's good news. Now just give them 16 years to save us from the baby boom crisis and social security issues.

Timing is about right. Some had said it would take 20 years to go bankrupt. Lets just hope we don't have 20% unemployment at that time.

Lets get them into child labor camps so they can help the debt NOW!!!

[Nagishkaw 510]

who cares...the important thing is they weren't aborted!

[mkg265 2]

I blame Angelina J. She had about half those babies.

[fozzie 41]

I blame Angelina J. She had about half those babies.

Didnt she adopt most of those from other countires though.

[Marina-Del 10]

Well, if you think about it, a lot of our parents (not all of us, I know!) were born in the baby boom. For example, my parents were born in the baby boom and I was born in the 80's. So if all of the people that were born in the baby boom had babies around the 80's, then all of those babies that were born in the 80's would be having babies now, get it?

I hope that wasn't too confusing!

[Niels Bohr 72]

2007 will be known as the horniest year for Americans.

[almaty 19]

true..a i see a lack of respect for the condom

[Danno 1,228]

That's good news. Now just give them 16 years to save us from the baby boom crisis and social security issues.

It would be sweet but with the high rate of these births being from single mothers.....we know

from stats they are too often more likely to absorb public funds rather than contribute, as the earlier Baby-Boomers did.

This was an odd mention at the end of the story.

<<<In yet another record high, the share of deliveries by Caesarean section reached 32 percent in 2007, up 2 percent from 2006. Experts have repeatedly said some C-sections are not medically necessary and impose excess costs, but the rate has steadily climbed, from 21 percent in 1996.>>>

What is the reason for that?

I will let other speculate.

[fozzie 41]

That's good news. Now just give them 16 years to save us from the baby boom crisis and social security issues.

It would be sweet but with the high rate of these births being from single mothers.....we know

from stats they are too often more likely to absorb public funds rather than contribute, as the earlier Baby-Boomers did.

This was an odd mention at the end of the story.

<<<In yet another record high, the share of deliveries by Caesarean section reached 32 percent in 2007, up 2 percent from 2006. Experts have repeatedly said some C-sections are not medically necessary and impose excess costs, but the rate has steadily climbed, from 21 percent in 1996.>>>

What is the reason for that?

I will let other speculate.

To maintain ones....ehem! Musculature.