She grew up in a large family in a small town in Pennsylvania and almost all her high school friends are married with children. That means not having children for a while. “I just want to build my book of business and see where I can go from here,” she said. The fertility rate among Hispanic women dropped more than 27 percent between 2007 and 2016, the most recent year of data by race. The rate for whites has dropped about 4 percent, for blacks about 11 percent and for Asians about 5 percent.

Source: New York Times May 17, 2018 00:06 UTC