In down economy, older moms' births still up in US

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 12:35 in Health & Medicine

(AP) -- U.S. births fell in 2008, probably because of the recession, updated government figures confirm. The one exception to the trend was the birth rate among women in their 40s, who perhaps felt they didn't have the luxury of waiting for better economic times.

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