Emma Reed
There was this idea at the beginning of the pandemic that lockdowns would lead to a major baby boom. With all the time stuck at home it seemed inevitable that people would be having more kids. But a its been a little more than a year, and that boom never came. So what happened? Well according to a new study, it was a combination of the pandemic itself and finances.
Guttmacher Institute reported that 34% of American women were “more careful” about contraceptive use in 2020. And according to data from 29 state health departments, December 2020 saw a 7.3% decrease in births. Phil Cohen, a University of Maryland sociologist, says this was the most drastic decline he’d noticed since 1964.
