“It’s almost certainly due to a lack of confidence in the economy,” Haub told the news source.
The fertility declines also varied across racial and ethnic groups, the news source reports. Hispanics, who were hardest hit but the recession, showed the largest decline in fertility, dropping by 5.9 percent between 2008 and 2009. For white women, birth rates dropped by 1.6 percent.
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