Black women in the U.S. appear to be shrinking, data show
Friday, December 26, 2008 - 09:07
in Psychology & Sociology
Call her The Incredible Shrinking African-American Woman. In an age when the adult populations of most industrialized nations have grown significantly taller, the average height of black women in the U.S. has been receding, beginning with those born in the late 1960s.