-Jon Bardin, Los Angeles Times
-November 30, 2012
-http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-us-birth-rate-falls-to-lowest-level-ever-recorded-20121130,0,1776253,print.story
Last year, the birthrate of the United States was recorded to be the lowest it has ever been since 1920. It is said that this drop has been due to immigrant women who cannot afford to have children. The birthrate during the Baby Boom after the second World War was 122.7 babies per a thousand women. Last year, it was approximately half of that at sixty three point two babies per a thousand women. The Pew Research Center is partly focused on the differences of demographic groups, and they noticed the drop in foreign women's birthrates. The birthrate for Mexicans in the United States was the most dramatic, by twenty-three percent, while all other foreign-born's birthrates dropped by fourteen percent. The Latinos have also had the most economic problems. However, the babies born from women born in the United States dropped from about sixty-two, to only about fifty-nine. The states that had the largest amount of birthrate drops, were the states that had the most economic issues. Thirty-eight years from now, the majority of children will be born from immigrants.
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