Childless? You're not alone

In fact, you may be doing the world (and yourself) a service by not having children. There are too many mouthes to feed as it is.

clipped from news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON - More women in their early 40s are childless, and those who are having children are having fewer than ever before, the Census Bureau said Monday. In the last 30 years, the number of women age 40 to 44 with no children has doubled, from 10 percent to 20 percent. And those who are mothers have an average of 1.9 children each, more than one child fewer than women of the same age in 1976. The survey found that in 2006 women with graduate or professional degrees recorded the most births of all educational levels. About 36 percent of women who gave birth in the previous 12 months were separated, divorced, widowed or unmarried. Unemployed women had about twice as many babies as working women, although women in the labor force accounted for the majority — 57 percent — of recent births.