{"id":669,"date":"2009-08-12T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T17:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2009-08-12T13:19:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T17:19:52","slug":"women-starting-their-families-later-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/08\/12\/669\/","title":{"rendered":"Women starting their families later in life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Did you know that in the United States, the average age of a mother at first birth has increased 3.6 years since 1970? Not only are U.S. women starting their families later in life, but the trend depends a great deal on a person&#8217;s race\/ethnicity and where she lives. Also, the U.S. has a much lower average age at first birth than many developed countries. To read more about this, visit the new Data Brief from the National Center for Health statistics, &#8220;<a title=\"Link to report on Delayed Childbearing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Delayed Childbearing: Women Are Having Their First Child Later in life<\/a>.&#8221; Also, you can listen to the <a title=\"Link to Delayed Childbearing Statcast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/STATCASTS\/statcasts.htm#statcast_delaychild\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statcast<\/a> or ask questions of the author on this <a title=\"Link to NCHS Press Room Blog Question Section\" href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/ive-got-a-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that in the United States, the average age of a mother at first birth has increased 3.6 years since 1970? Not only are U.S. women starting their families later in life, but the trend depends a great deal on a person&#8217;s race\/ethnicity and where she lives. Also, the U.S. has a much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,14289,62268,62307,63678,63766,53751],"tags":[63871,63931,64242,64243,64308,16093],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}