“The latest numbers reflect the well-established trend of more women going to college and entering the work force, then delaying motherhood or deciding not to have children.

“The latest numbers reflect the well-established trend of more women going to college and entering the work force, then delaying motherhood or deciding not to have children. More also are choosing adoption, said Martha Farnsworth Riche, a demographer and former head of the Census Bureau.” (CCI observes that what this report does not comment on is the fact that there are over 1 million abortions a year in the US, and that countless thousands of women have effectively sterilized themselves after decades on ‘the pill.’)