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  • Title: Who's having babies?
    Author: Kent MM.
    Journal: Popul Today; 1988 Feb; 16(2):8-9. PubMed ID: 12341737.
    Abstract:
    The June 1986 US Current Population Survey was the first to include birth rates and lifetime birth expectations for foreign-born women. Its findings, based on a sample of 57,000 households, indicated that 1 out of every 10 US babies in 1986 was born to a foreign-born mother. Foreign-born women represent 7.4% of all US women 18-44 years of age. Mexican-Americans have the highest fertility, followed by women from other Latin American countries, Asian-born women, and finally, European women. The birth rate among Mexican-American women was 142/1000 in 1986. Foreign-born women expect to have a lifetime total of 2.3 children compared with 2.1 projected by US women overall. The percentage of women in their 30s who have never had a child has increased by 50% since 1976. By 1986, 24% of women 30-34 years of age and 17% of those 35-39 years of age had never had children. Other findings of the survey include the following: about 50% of new mothers return to the labor force within 1 year; the only increase in fertility between 1985 and 1986 occurred among women 30-34 years of age; Hispanic women have significantly higher fertility rates than black women or white women (106/1000, 78/1000, and 68/1000, respectively); and about half of recent black mothers are unmarried compared with 23% of Hispanic mothers and 12% of white mothers.
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