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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist New government statistics released yesterday found that the U.S. birthrate fell two percent from 2007 to 2008, meaning Americans were no longer giving birth to enough children to prevent population decline.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has found that the average age of women giving birth for the first time rose from age 21 in 1970 to 25 in 2006.

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