Childbearing Differences Among Three Generations of U.S. Women

Each year a generation of women is born who will share similar sociohistorical
experiences before and throughout their reproductive lives. These unique
experiences can produce similar childbearing patterns in terms of the average
number of children ever born—whether mothers are younger or older when their
first birth occurs and the proportion of women who do not have children—that
can differ from the patterns found for other cohorts. Childbearing patterns have
profound consequences for society. T...