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The No. 1 Reason American Women Aren’t Having More Kids

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Here's why more moms are saying "no thanks" to more babies.

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When news broke in May that the U.S. fertility, experts scrambled to explain why women aren’t having as many kids as they used to. The data was especially puzzling because many economists expected the fertility rate to recover along with economy—figuring couples would have more kids as they earned a bigger paycheck. They were wrong.

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