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Expanding opportunities for women and economic uncertainty are both factors in declining US fertility rates

  • Written by Ann M. Oberhauser, Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University
imageWomen have many more work and educational choices than previous generations, which affect their decisions about having children.Justin Lewis/DigitalVision via Getty Images

The decline in population growth in the U.S. from 2010 to 2020 is part of a broader national trend linked to falling birth rates, but also immigration changes and other factors....

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