CDC data brief on fertility changes

in three cohorts of women
August 30, 2011

CDC releases new demographic information: "Childbearing Differences among Three Generations of U.S. Women." Key finding: Of three generations of women born in 1910, 1935, and 1960, those born in 1935 had the most children (on average 3.0 children per woman) and those born in 1960 had the fewest (2.0).