The Friday File: A recent study that tracked 500,000 women for five years found that the chances of being in a car accident vary during pregnancy. When not pregnant and during the first month of pregnancy, the chances of being in a car crash are 0.45%/annually. It rises to a peak of 0.76% during the fourth month and then declines to a staggeringly low rate of 0.27% by the ninth.
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Recession Reduces Romance
US births fell for a 3rd straight year. Births peaked at 4.3 million in ’07 but by ’10 births were just 4 million. In ’08 and ’09 the only increase in births was for women over 40. The decline is tied to the economy. Women who are unemployed or who have other financial strains are reluctant to start a family or add to it. A drop in immigration is also partly to blame as Hispanics have higher birth rates.