However, looking at the Bureau's information, I was struck by their mention that the number of 5 to 13 year-olds declined by 284,000 from 2004 to 2005. Thus, I pulled up the data to see that both the 5-9 and 10-14 year-old age groups (cohorts) have declined in total number over the past few years. The data at hand only goes back to the 2000 Census but that year is the peak for the 5-9 cohort (a decrease of over a million children!) while 2002 was the peak estimate year for the 10-14 year-old group. The youngest cohort (age 0-4) and older cohorts (20-24 and 25-29) are all growing but 5-14 are declining over the past few years. What's going on with this? Is the U.S. experiencing a brain drain of the youngest members of society, who are moving abroad for primary school? Was there a mini-baby boom? What do you think? Post your comments below...
Number of 5-14 Year Old Children in U.S. Decreasing
By Matt Rosenberg, About.com GuideOctober 28, 2006
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The when the baby boomers started having families, that created a mini baby boom in the late eighties. Those children are now in their later teens and twenties, giving colleges new record enrollments. There are fewer children in the 5-13 year old age group, because there were fewer people born in the years after 1964, who would be of prime child-bearing age between the years 1993 and 2000. The older children of the baby boomers are now marrying and starting families, creating another mini baby boom in the 0-5 age group.
The # of US households headed by 2 parent families are below/and heading further below 50%! Only natural the # of 5-14 are in decline? The data base used to tabulate data .. needs in & of itself to be rechecked for structural defect for data capture!The # of US jobs relocating overseas with child-bearing couples are on increase. Appears the # of children on milk cartons are on increase. The # of kids being home-schooled are on increase, therefore outside the data base? The # of kids adopted by same-sex couples are on increase, therefore, possibly outside data base? The # of runaway kids are on increase?
They are being killed
Hi
The drop in the number of kids is a phenomenon seen across the “Western” World. Couples now both go out to work and have a career with babies increasingly born (if at all) to mums when they are over 30 years of age. Contraception has become reliable (pity our unmarried teens sometimes fail to take advantage of this)so it is relatively easy to plan a family that is smaller than in previous generations.
What was the weather like 5 years ago? We seem to have baby booms whenever we have extremely snowy and cold winters (case in point, the baby boom of 1995). Did we have unseasonably warm winters the past 5-9 years?
I am married and have two kids. One of them is a 10 year. We don’t expect to have anymore children. So we are in that range of declining children.
Duh!, It is estimated that in a single year 46 million unborn children are murdered worldwide. In the US the number is approx. 3700 a DAY. Those that choose to close their eyes should do an internet search one day on abortion. http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html
According to a study done by the Alan Guttmacher Institue, a research affiliate of Planned Parenthood Federation, the numbers charted are over 7.5 MILLION abortions have ben performed from 1993-98.
The abortions from 1973 to 1973 to 1998 are over 38 million!!!
God have mercy…
My wife and I just started having babies again so maybe that is it.
http://www.new-eastside.com
there may be to many reasons:
1-abortion
2-death of childerns
3-kidnapping of childern
etc
In US history, baby booms have generally followed wars. Korea was too soon after WW-II to make a discernable difference. But then you had Vietnam, and now Iraq looks like being a long engagement. No doubt others will follow. So the Census Bureau’s finding could well be a short-term aberration. In any case, with so many Italians, Chinese and Mexicans (and now Indians, Pakistanis etc.) you are never really going to have a problem of long-term decline in the lower-decile cohorts. Only thing is, the new migrants from Asia tend to be better educated and more professionally motivated, so they are not likely to seriously get into raising large families. Better start looking elsewhere for immigrants. As for the indigenous peoples (I mean the whites) you should start thinking of a state-sponsored breeding program similar to that attempted in Nazi Germany, with attractive social benefits as an incentive.
Vivek
Reason – Birth control.
Before birth control pills and abortion, babies were created and born whether or not children were wanted. Now most people plan their reproduction to meet their desires for children and their ability to care for those children.