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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, it is a rare choice. 
"The number of women giving birth into their 40s and 50s and beyond is at record highs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2007, 105,071 women aged 40-44 gave birth, the highest rate since 1968; the birth rate for women 45 to 54 was 7,349, an increase of 5% in just one year. (health magazine)"

There are 380 million people in the US, 200 million women, 100K births= about .005%. Less than the number of millionares in the US.
The statement above is misleading b/c there are more, but the number is still tiny.

Many of the women posters think are 45-50, sadly are not. They just look old.[/quote]

LOL, Whoever posted this, needs to understand that all 200 million US women are NOT of child bearing age, and NOT EVERY child bearing aged woman gives birth EVERY year. :) 
So we have around 4 million births every year and NOT  :roll: 200 million, which brings the 100K babies born to the 40-44 age group, to a still small but a more decent 2.5%
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_01.pdf

And for the sake of argument (though I dont understand why we are comparing these two %) 2.5% is actually MORE than the number of millionares in the US, which seems to be 0.9% as per Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire[/quote]

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