Baby boom to come? Or higher divorce rate?
Quote from Debbie Young, MSL, LCCE, ICCE, ICBD, CLC on April 28, 2020, 1:19 pmThe coronavirus and birth rates: What experts say about 'a once-in-a-century situation' - It's not a new idea. Researchers have over decades examined a variety of events looking for birth rate changes and at times have found them. See what the IndyStar has to say.
"Will coronavirus cause a baby boom, or is that just a myth? Prepare for jokes, if not babies!" says USA Today Richard Evans, associate director in the graduate computational social science program at the University of Chicago thinks there may be a blip, possibly a 2% increase, meaning roughly 6,000 extra births per month this winter.
But just to make things interesting, there are people who predict that there's going to be a divorce boom, too, thanks in part to so much enforced togetherness and the tensions that arise from, say, one spouse losing a job or another not doing their fair share of chores.
The coronavirus and birth rates: What experts say about 'a once-in-a-century situation' - It's not a new idea. Researchers have over decades examined a variety of events looking for birth rate changes and at times have found them. See what the IndyStar has to say.
"Will coronavirus cause a baby boom, or is that just a myth? Prepare for jokes, if not babies!" says USA Today Richard Evans, associate director in the graduate computational social science program at the University of Chicago thinks there may be a blip, possibly a 2% increase, meaning roughly 6,000 extra births per month this winter.
But just to make things interesting, there are people who predict that there's going to be a divorce boom, too, thanks in part to so much enforced togetherness and the tensions that arise from, say, one spouse losing a job or another not doing their fair share of chores.