Massachusetts leads a trend of later-in-life motherhood

The Boston Globe reports:

The new statistics, released last week by the US Census Bureau, show Massachusetts at the forefront of the national trend, followed by New Jersey, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia, and Connecticut in proportion of births to women between the ages of 35 and 50. The survey, taken from 2005 to 2009, included all births, not just first children.

Nationally, about 14 percent of all births in 2008 were to women 35 and older, up from 9 percent in 1990, according to a 2010 Pew Research Center study.

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