’07 U.S. Births Break Baby Boom Record

[mkg265 2]

That's good news. Now just give them 16 years to save us from the baby boom crisis and social security issues.

It would be sweet but with the high rate of these births being from single mothers.....we know

from stats they are too often more likely to absorb public funds rather than contribute, as the earlier Baby-Boomers did.

This was an odd mention at the end of the story.

<<<In yet another record high, the share of deliveries by Caesarean section reached 32 percent in 2007, up 2 percent from 2006. Experts have repeatedly said some C-sections are not medically necessary and impose excess costs, but the rate has steadily climbed, from 21 percent in 1996.>>>

What is the reason for that?

I will let other speculate.

Hospitals can charge insurance companies more for C-sections than natural birth. At that point of the delivery, no woman is going to fight with the doctor.

[Mononoke28 135]

THANKS OCTOMOM!!!!

Diana

Edited March 19, 2009 by Mononoke28

[fozzie 41]

That's good news. Now just give them 16 years to save us from the baby boom crisis and social security issues.

It would be sweet but with the high rate of these births being from single mothers.....we know

from stats they are too often more likely to absorb public funds rather than contribute, as the earlier Baby-Boomers did.

This was an odd mention at the end of the story.

<<<In yet another record high, the share of deliveries by Caesarean section reached 32 percent in 2007, up 2 percent from 2006. Experts have repeatedly said some C-sections are not medically necessary and impose excess costs, but the rate has steadily climbed, from 21 percent in 1996.>>>

What is the reason for that?

I will let other speculate.

Hospitals can charge insurance companies more for C-sections than natural birth. At that point of the delivery, no woman is going to fight with the doctor.

Once you have one C-section, the rest have to be c-sections also.

[Danno 1,228]

That's good news. Now just give them 16 years to save us from the baby boom crisis and social security issues.

It would be sweet but with the high rate of these births being from single mothers.....we know

from stats they are too often more likely to absorb public funds rather than contribute, as the earlier Baby-Boomers did.

This was an odd mention at the end of the story.

<<<In yet another record high, the share of deliveries by Caesarean section reached 32 percent in 2007, up 2 percent from 2006. Experts have repeatedly said some C-sections are not medically necessary and impose excess costs, but the rate has steadily climbed, from 21 percent in 1996.>>>

What is the reason for that?

I will let other speculate.

To maintain ones....ehem! Musculature.

Have you heard talk that this is this something women are electing to do for this reason?

[alienlovechild 75]

The 4,317,000 births in 2007 just edged out the figure for 1957, at the height of the baby boom. The increase reflected a slight rise in childbearing by women of all ages, including those in their 30s and 40s, and a record share of births to unmarried women.

But in contrast with the culturally transforming postwar boom, when a smaller population of women bore an average of three or four children, the recent increase mainly reflects a larger population of women of childbearing age, said Stephanie J. Ventura, chief of reproductive statistics at the center and an author of the new report. Today, the average woman has 2.1 children.

The population was far smaller in 1957 and this new baby boomlet doesn't come close to being a true increase in TFR. The births to unmarried women doesn't bother me until these women expect government programs to make up for the daddy who left town.

[Heracles 417]

How many of those were births by illegal aliens?

good question.

That would be interesting.

2007 will be known as the horniest year for Americans.

Or the largest number of anchor babies ever.

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Here's a stat for a start: Welcome welfare generation.

The new report also found that the share of births to unmarried women of all ages reached a record high of 40 percent of all births in 2007,

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Racial and ethnic differences remain large: 28 percent of white babies were born to unmarried mothers in 2007, compared with 51 percent of Hispanic babies and 72 percent of black babies.

Edited March 19, 2009 by Constellation

[spookyturtle 9,466]

who cares...the important thing is they weren't aborted!

I care.

[Heracles 417]

Cannot wait to see in 15 years time how this too will be blamed on historical events and the white man keeping the blackman down.

"Gives Doesn't gives the druuuuugs to prevents the babeeeeees! Therefooooore, he makes the black man haves these babeeees and remainz in poverteezz "

Edited March 20, 2009 by Constellation

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Future President... (b. 3-15-2007) Just needs some growth hormones.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Future President... (b. 3-15-2007) Just needs some growth hormones.

And I hope dad remembers to tell him what a great guy spooky is.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Future President... (b. 3-15-2007) Just needs some growth hormones.

And I hope dad remembers to tell him what a great guy spooky is.

You could be in his cabinet....Ambassador to the Cayman Islands...paradise to sea turtles.

Edited March 20, 2009 by Mister Fancypants

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Future President... (b. 3-15-2007) Just needs some growth hormones.

And I hope dad remembers to tell him what a great guy spooky is.

You could be in his cabinet....Ambassador to the Cayman Islands...paradise to sea turtles.

I resemble that.

[alienlovechild 75]

Future President... (b. 3-15-2007) Just needs some growth hormones.

You mean future Premier of North Korea. We saw the previous photo with the sunglasses and fluffed up hairdo.

[almaty 19]

brother stevie.. a fine looking young lad..who will achieve what is important to him..and his future family...

[one...two...tree 2,762]

You mean future Premier of North Korea. We saw the previous photo with the sunglasses and fluffed up hairdo.

Thankfully, he lost all his Kim Jung Il hair, so hopefully he won't be a megalomaniac despot.

brother stevie.. a fine looking young lad..who will achieve what is important to him..and his future family...

He and his 2007 classmates will be keeping the SS coffers full.