Wake Up America: US births break record; 40 percent are out-of-wedlock
[Via breitbart.com] More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation’s history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday. There is both good and bad news from the more than 4.3 million births:
_The U.S. population is more than replacing itself, a healthy trend.
_However, the teen birth rate was up for the second year in a row.
The birth rate rose slightly for women of all ages, and births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent, continuing a trend begun years ago. More than three-quarters of these women were 20 or older.
For a variety of reasons, it’s become more acceptable for women to have babies without a husband, said Duke University’s S. Philip Morgan, a leading fertility researcher.
Even happy couples may be living together without getting married, experts say. And more women—especially those in their 30s and 40s—are choosing to have children despite their single status.
The new numbers indicate the nation is experiencing a baby boomlet with fertility rates higher in every racial group. On average, a U.S. woman has 2.1 babies in her lifetime. The highest fertility rates were among Hispanics.
But it’s not clear the boomlet will last long. Some experts think birth rates are already declining because of the economic recession that began in late 2007.
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Yes it is… and all the babies who escaped the broom closets Barack Obama would have left them in.
Palin had the decency to admit that when her daughter got pregnant out-of-wedlock, she did not approve of it. But Obama isn’t man enough to say that it’s murder to decapitate a baby while it’s being born because he’s too deep into politics. And we all know that “politics” can be broken down into “poly-” and “-ticks” to mean “Many Blood-Sucking Creatures”. 
(Ok, that last part was just a joke.)
Isn’t it funny how Sarah Palin (Vice Presidential candidate) and Barack Obama (former Presidential candidate and now our President) were and are so constantly compared? You never hear any comparison with Joe Biden and John McCain. You’d think Sarah Palin was a threat to Barack Obama or something…
That’s Palin’s grandbaby you are talking about.