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Article: American women waiting to begin families.(maternal age rises)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- January 9, 2003
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2003 JAN 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The average American woman was almost 25 years old when she had her first child in the year 2000. That's compared with an average age of 21.4 years for a first birth in 1970, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report also shows that the average age of mothers for all births rose from 24.6 years to 27.2 over the past 3 decades.
More than half of all births still occur to women in their 20s - the peak childbearing years - but the average age in this group has shifted steadily upward since 1970. The increase in the average age of child birth also reflects the ...