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U.S. women are having more children, new report shows

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 31st, 2002

Women in the United States are having more children than at any time in almost 30 years, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) birth statistics released by HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. At the same time, Secretary Thompson said that births to teens continue to decline.

In 2000, the average number of children born to women over a lifetime was 2.1, according to a new CDC report, Births: Final Data for 2000. During most of the 1970s and 1980s women gave birth to fewer than two children on average, a rate insufficient to replace the population (2.1 is considered the population's replacement level).

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