Census Bureau Releases First Ever Report on Men’s Fertility
About 61.6% of men (74.7 million men) age 15 and over are fathers, and of those, 72.2 million men have a biological child.
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- About 1% of white, Asian and Hispanic men ages 15 to 19 are fathers, compared with about 3% of black men of the same age.
- Among men ages 20 to 29, 21.2% of white men, 24.9% of black men, 12.4% of Asian men, and 29.4% of Hispanic men are fathers.
About 61.6% of men (74.7 million men) age 15 and over are fathers, and of those, 72.2 million men have a biological child, according to a new Men’s Fertility and Fatherhood: 2014 report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. More than one in four men have a biological child under the age of 18. Of the men with biological children under age 18, four out of five live with at least some of those minor children.
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Why are more adults not having children? New study may have an explanation.
About 47% of U.S. adults younger than 50 without kids polled in 2023 said they were unlikely to have children, up 10% from 2018.
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Pew’s recent study examined two groups of U.S. adults: Americans ages 18 to 49 who say they are unlikely to have children and those 50 and older who do not have children. The survey – which polled more than 3,000 people – included both “childfree” Americans who chose not to have children and “childless” adults who are not parents due to circumstances out of their control.
Pew’s recent study examined two groups of U.S. adults: Americans ages 18 to 49 who say they are unlikely to have children and those 50 and older who do not have children. The survey – which polled more than 3,000 people – included both “childfree” Americans who chose not to have children and “childless” adults who are not parents due to circumstances out of their control.
The study follows a 2023 Pew survey that found 47% of U.S. adults younger than 50 without kids said they were unlikely to have children, up 10 percentage points from 2018.
The most recent Pew survey, published Thursday, found nearly 40% of the older group said parenthood “just never happened,” while the majority of the younger group without kids (57%) said they “just don’t want to” have children.
Other popular reasons for not having children among those 49 and younger include:
- Wanting to focus on other things (44% versus 21% for the older group)
- Concerns about the state of the world (38% versus 13% for the older group)
- Costs of raising a child (36% versus 12% for the older group)
- Concerns about the environment (26% versus 6% for the older group)
Meanwhile, older adults were more likely to say they didn’t have kids because they didn’t find the right partner (33% versus 24% for the younger group) or due to infertility or other medical reasons (15% versus 13% for the younger group).