20 PERCENTS OF AMERICAN WOMEN DON'T WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN

Today more and more American women choose not to have children than three decades ago. "Almost 20 percent of older women who do not have children, compared with 10 percent in the 1970s," said Pew Research Center. "In recent decades, the social pressure to play the traditional roles have been reduced in many ways and there are more opportunities for personal choice. It can play a role in reducing the pressure for people to marry and raise children," said D'Vera Cohn, a writer joint report.

"Women have more choice compared to the past to build strong careers, and apply the option to not have children," Cohn said in an electronic mail. Findings in the report was based on data from the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (Census Bureau Population Survey). Cohn said that another reason for the increasing number of women who did not want the child are children regarded by some as less important for a successful marriage. Results Pew survey in 2007 found that 41 percent of adults say the children is essential for a good marriage, down from 65 percent in 1990. One in five white women aged 40-44 years do not have children in 2008, compared with 17 percent black and Hispanic women and 16 percent of Asian women. Between 1994 and 2008, numbers of black and Hispanic women who did not have increased by almost a third child, far higher than the increase of 11 percent in white women.

Education also seems to be one factor in a woman's choice to become mothers. The more educated women, the higher the rejection rate for having children. Make a woman who just pocketed the high school diploma, that figure is 17 percent, compared with 24 percent in women younger people with a bachelor's degree. But the number of women who do not have children has fallen on women who have a bachelor's degree from 31 percent in 1994 to be 24 percent in 2008. 

According to economic experts, many highly educated women have more opportunities to be economically achieved by giving priority to their careers, compared to women who are less educated. "The most highly educated women also tend to marry at an older age and delay having children until they are older age than those who were less educated," said Cohn.

Source: Kompas.com