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- Births Outside of Marriage Decline for Immigrant Women
- As births outside of marriage decline among the foreign born, the gap between immigrant and U.S.-born moms widens
- For foreign-born women, big drop in fertility outside of marriage
- Since 1970, increase in annual number of U.S. births is driven entirely by immigrant women
- Fertility of foreign-born women remains far higher than that of U.S.-born women
- Most foreign-born moms are longtime U.S. residents
- Births to immigrant moms tripled since 1970
- Birth rates among foreign-born women have been consistently higher than those of U.S.-born women
- The growing nativity gap in births outside of marriage
- Births outside of marriage most common among moms from Latin America
- For foreign-born women, rapid decline in childbearing outside of marriage
- Latin American women are responsible for bulk of births to foreign born
- Among U.S. women, those from sub-Saharan Africa have highest birth rates
- Compared with U.S.-born new moms, foreign-born moms less likely to be teens, more likely to be ages 35 or older
- New foreign-born moms from North America, Europe twice as likely as new U.S.-born moms to be ages 35 or older
- New foreign-born moms less likely than U.S.-born to have a high school diploma, but equally likely to have a bachelor’s degree
- Educational attainment among new foreign-born moms differs widely by region of birth
- Among the less educated, birth rate almost twice as high for foreign born as for U.S. born
- Half of new foreign-born moms are out of the labor force
- Among new foreign-born U.S. moms from Latin America, poverty is over four times as high as among those from North America
- Most foreign-born moms are longtime U.S. residents
- New moms from Latin America among least likely to be recent immigrants
- Majority of new foreign-born mothers speak English well
- Births to moms from top 10 locations account for most births to foreign-born new moms
- After more than doubling, share of births to Mexican-born moms on the decline
- Virtually all births to Indian moms occur within marriage
- Almost half of new mothers from Vietnam are ages 35 or older
- Well over half of new moms from India and China have a bachelor’s degree
- Among new U.S. moms from Honduras, poverty is 12 times as high as that of new U.S. moms from India
- About 4-in-10 new moms from Guatemala are English-proficient
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