Nearly half of U.S. women have no children, highest on record UPI ^ | April 8, 2015 | Andrew V. Pestano
More women in the United States have no children now than at any other time since the U.S. Census Bureau began keeping records in 1976. An average of nearly half, 47.6 percent, of women between the ages of 15 and 44 did not have children in 2014, up from 46.5 percent in 2012, according to the Census Bureau. The average of women without children between the ages of 15 to 44 in 1976 was 35.1 percent.
The general fertility rate in the United States fell for its sixth straight year in 2013. It stands at 1.86, according to The New York Times. A fertility rate of 2.1 is required to have a stable U.S. population.
Poster's note: They don't have kids because they are too busy getting tatoos or having ear rings stuck in their nose, lips, or tongue.
