Higher Educated Women Giving Birth Later in Life
Previous decades saw a rise in women furthering careers, choosing educational and career goals over family and having 
children. However, a recent study says we may be seeing a change in that as women with higher educations are also choosing to have children, just waiting until later in life.
“For the highly educated women born after the late 50s, they are more likely to have children than did previous cohorts, and they are having them near the end of their childbearing years,” Bruce Weinberg, co-author of the new study and professor of economics at Ohio State University, told Science Daily.
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The study shows considerable increases in pregnancies for women with graduate education in their late 30s and beyond. Although there is an increase for women with Bachelor degrees, it is not as high as women with graduate education.
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Jacqueline Wilson is a prime parent, wife, published author and freelance writer. She writes here, on Prime Parents’ Club, and on her observational parenting humor blog, WritRams.com: Writer Ramblings on Parenting Imperfectly. Follow her on Twitter as @WritRams and on her Facebook page. She recently wrote an e-Book on the REAL truth about how blogs make money. She recently started Project Purse Club, a support and networking group dedicated to changing the way women treat each other in business and blogging.Subscribe
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