no baby steps

One in five U.S. women are remaining childless throughout their lives, according to U.S. Census Bureau research cited in this article.

The figure marks an increase, Census Bureau officials say. An excerpt:

"The proportion of childless women has been increasing steadily by about one percentage point a year," said Jane Dye, the report's author.

The bureau's statistics give no clue as to whether US women are consciously putting their careers before their families and remaining childless, or are experiencing fertility problems perhaps as a result of trying to become pregnant towards the end of their fertile years.

That may be true, but why does it still seem like every other day someone's replacing her main Facebook photo with a sonogram-generated image? Seriously.