Monday, September 10, 2018
Baby Boom or Bust? Media Gets it Wrong - Again
We seem to have reached the point where reporting on every aspect of our life is subject to or twisted to conform to a bias.
It is pervasive and almost always favors the progressive wishes...
It is pervasive and almost always favors the progressive wishes...
On the ImmigrationReform.com website Bob Dane recently presented this and more:
"In fact, women in the U.S. are more likely to be mothers than in the past, and they are having more children, reports the Pew Research Center. The Pew study found that women have 2.07 children during their lives on average – up from 1.86 in 2006, the lowest on record. Family size is also up. In 2016, mothers at the end of their childbearing years had had about 2.42 children, compared with 2.31 in 2008. So, what about those dire warnings of a U.S. population collapse?
The Pew analysis is properly calculated on a cumulative measure of lifetime fertility — the number of births a woman has ever had. Reports of alleged declining U.S. fertility are based on less accurate annual rates, which only capture fertility at one point in time.
In fact, the share of U.S. women at the end of their childbearing years who have ever given birth was higher in 2016 than 10 years earlier. Not only are women more likely to be mothers than in the past, but they are having more children."
