Boom in Births

03/25/2009

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews, English film and stage actress

According to statistics just released by the U.S. government, and reported in USA Today (March 19, 2009), 2007 was a banner year for babies in the USA, with a record 4.31 million births. Some interesting factoids about these births:

1.7 million of these babies (40%) were given birth to by unmarried women — this, too, set a national record
23% of the births to unmarried women were by teens (down from 50% in 1970)
Premature births fell from 12.8% of all births in 2006 to 12.7% in 2007
The cesarean delivery rate rose to 31.8% — another all-time high
The teen birth rate was up 1% in 2007 to 42.5 births per 1000 women ages 15 - 19

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