How childbearing varies across US women in 3 charts
- Written by Caroline Sten Hartnett, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina

Falling U.S. fertility rates have been making headlines.
These reports tend to focus on a single measure: the average number of children that women have, nationally. However, this one number masks large and interesting variation in people’s childbearing...
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