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Trends in Childbearing, Reproductive Health

The CDC issued an interesting report on childbearing and the sexual and reproductive lives of American women. Here are some highlights.

• About 6.1 million women had impaired fecundity in 1995, compared with 4.9 million in 1988. Some of this increase is due to the aging of the baby boom generation. The percent with impaired fecundity was 8.4 in 1988 and 10.2 in 1995.

• Approximately 2 percent of women (1.2 million) had an infertility visit in the past year, and another 13 percent (7.6 million) reported an infertility visit at some point earlier in their lives.

• In 1995, eight percent of women reported that they had been treated for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) at some time in their lives, down from 11 percent in 1988 and 14 percent in 1982.

• The percent of women who were douching regularly declined from 37 percent in 1988 to 27 percent in 1995.

• Medicaid was used to help pay for about one out of three deliveries in 1991-95 (34 percent). Among unmarried mothers and teenage mothers, two-thirds (68-69 percent) were paid for, at least partly, by Medicaid, compared with 20 percent of births to married mothers.

• Women's average expected family size was 2.2 children per woman in 1995, 2.2 in 1988, and 2.4 in 1982.
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