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• Do Doctors See Young Women as Baby Machines?

  The New York Times unwittingly opened up a can of worms when they wrote about a recent report on the health risks of sharing prescription drugs. The warning was targeted mainly at women of child-bearing age, since drugs can pose a risk to a developing fetus. Many women commented on the article, but not because they cared a whit about the health issues discussed. Rather, they were outraged that the danger of sharing prescription drugs was framed as specifically problematic for women of child-bearing age. “Not all women are “pre-pregnant,” one reader wrote. Read More... Posted Sep 02 2008, 09:30 AM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: babies, new york times, reproduction, childless, women, doctors, choosing not to have children, gynecologists, health concerns, baby machines, women's issue, reproductive organs, pre-pregnant, uterus

• Whites Quickly Becoming Minority in U.S.

  Here's another fun demographic fact uncovered by the new Census Bureau report: not only are American whites of European descent having less babies, but Hispanics are having more. With 2.3 kids per mom, Hispanics are having more children than other ethnic group in the U.S. Still, Hispanic women today are having less children than their mothers did, mirroring the nationwide trend of reduced fertility. Read More... Posted Aug 23 2008, 12:18 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: mothers, moms, birth rate, fertility, population, minority, hispanics, report, english, immigration, bilingual, latinos, u.s. census bureau, choosing not to have children, census, choosing to have children, spanish, whites, official language