New study finds more women having babies later in life
Story By: Kristin Hawley
Source: NBC
Pueblo Published 101 day(s) ago
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that women having babies nowadays are increasing older. They are also unmarried.
The report compared pregnancy rates from 1990 and 2004. In 2004, 38% of pregnancies involved women under age 25. That is down from nearly 43% percent in 1990.
The decrease includes teen girls. The proportion of pregnancies among teens dropped from 15% in 1990 to 12% in 2004.
Pregnancies among unmarried women increased while pregnancies among married women went down.
Abortions also fell by nearly a quarter over the studied time period.
