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And I'm Kimberly Adams.

Thank you everyone for joining us on this Monday, November the 6th.

We'll do some news, smiles, and then get you on the merry way.

We will begin with the news. What Ms Adams do you have?

I discovered today because you know you got to learn something new every day

that I am personally responsible for the declining birth rate in this country.

Really?

Do you go on?

Yes.

So the Washington Post has a section which I love called Department of Data and they had a

piece out a couple days ago that says millennials aren't having kids here are the reasons why.

And originally they were looking into data about the declining birth rate

and they thought they were going to see an increase in the number of families

with just one kid because kids are so expensive and so maybe a lot more

families were choosing just to have one child but actually that's not what they

found the number of number of single child households has remained steady,

along with the three kid families has gone down a little bit, but not much four kid families pretty steady five kid families pretty steady two kid households down quite a bit but the biggest spike is zero children.

And so the number, the chart that they have,

the number of times women have given birth

in their lifetime, average ages 25 to 44 the zero

number has just shot up and so let me just find this so something like one in five American women ages 25 to 44 are one and done which is

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