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Delayed Childbearing trend increasing in California Over the last two decades, California has experienced an accelerating trend in delayed childbearing, according to a study released today by the Public Policy Institute of California. A growing percentage of women are giving birth in their early forties, while a much lower percentage of teenagers are becoming mothers. Peak fertility rates among U.S.-born white and Asian women now occur in their early 30s, rather than in their late 20s. Peak fertility rates among U.S.-born Latinas occur in their early 20s. In general, Latinas have much higher birth rates than other ethnic groups, with the highest rate in the state belonging to foreign-born Latinas (3.7 children per woman). The trend in childbearing among women over age 40 is highest among whites and Asians. However, despite the growth of fertility rates for women in their 40s, they still represent a small share of all births: 95 percent of California women have completed childbearing by age 40. In 2006, one of every four women in her early 40s had no children, nearly twice the rate as in 1980. This is the highest level of childlessness in the state’s history. Source: Public Policy Institute of California, Birth rates in California, November 2007, http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=777.
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