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the birth rate hc.s been moving in the opposite direction, dropping steadily. It is attributed to the fact that women in their 20’s are having fewer children than did women of similar age in earlier times.
According to the 1070 National Fertility Study, this trend is likely to continue for some time. Its findings indicate that women n their early 20’s expect to have an average of 2.53 children. The average in 1965, when a similar study was made, was 3.03.
The turn toward smaller families is ascribed by the Population Reference Bureau to a realization on the part of young married people that “rearing children in this complicated and expensive world preserts big problems. ’’
THE EXTENT to which this has been happening in the local area is to be seen in the Census Bureau’s report on the number ol children in the population jnder the age of five for every 1,000 women of child-bearing age. This is called the “fertility ratio.”
Tie ratio in Rappahannock County is given as 353. In 1960 it was 458.
The shift in the median
93.1%