What: NBC News digs into fertility stats released earlier this month from the federal government and explains that the fertility rate has significantly increased for women over 40. From 1990 to 2023, the fertility rate for that age group jumped 127%. On the flip side, a record low number of teenagers are giving birth.
Key line: “’There’s a flip in the age distribution,’ said Elizabeth Wildsmith, a family demographer and sociologist at Child Trends, a nonpartisan research group.”
Source: NBC News