[...] More and more, black women are opting to pursue education and career before having children, which helps to explain why birth rates have been on the decline nationally for African-Americans in the last decade. This is particularly true of women in their 20s and 30s, who represent the largest segment of new mothers.
While fertility rates have declined for women of all races, the downward trend has been more striking and consistent for black women than for any other racial or ethnic group, new research shows.
The number of births among all women declined by 3% from 1990 to 2002, but for black women, the decline was 13%, according to newly released figures from the National Center for Health Statistics.
Birth rates for black women have plummeted even as white, Hispanic and Asian women had more births for the same period. Black women between the ages of 15 and 44 saw the biggest decline in births -- 24% -- during the same period. [...]
| That's the data hook in Tannette Johnson-Elie's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel column "Children, yes, but these young women want to find their place in world first"
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