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08/21/2008: "One in five US women remain childless in life"

One in five women in America are remaining childless throughout their lives, twice the proportion of a generation ago.

A new survey from the US Census Bureau shows that 20% of women aged 40 to 44 were childless, up from 10% in 1976. Though the report - which is based on figures for 2006, the most recent year collected - stops at 44, the number of women giving birth after that age is statistically nominal.

The trend towards having children later in life and the growing proportion of childless women is in tune with patterns across developed countries. Fertility experts have been struck, though, by the steady decline in fertility in the US since the mid-1980s.

[ The number of intelligent white women failing to reproduce will be significantly worse than this average over all races of women in the US - similarly with the most intelligent non-white women. Their degenerate choice adds to the idiocracy. The future is largely in the hands of intelligent women and they are failing on a grand scale. ]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/20/usa1