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| Subject: Recession means fewer fucks; US births fell 2 pct Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:48 pm | |
| ATLANTA – There aren't just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too. U.S. births fell in 2008, the first full year of the recession, marking the first annual decline in births since the start of the decade and ending an American baby boomlet.
The downturn in the economy best explains the drop in maternity, some experts believe. The Great Depression and subsequent recessions all were accompanied by a decline in births, said Carol Hogue, an Emory University professor of maternal and child health and epidemiology.
And the numbers have never rebounded until the economy pulled out of it, she said, calling the 2008 recession the most likely culprit for fewer babies.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090808/ap_on_he_me/us_baby_bust |
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