Will preventing unwanted pregnancies alone enough to stabilize U.S. population?
The U.S. fertility rate was almost the replacement level of 2.1 in 2009. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2/3 of future population growth will result from immigrants arriving since 1994 and their U.S.-born descendants. On October 5, 2001, the Charlotte Observer (NC) reported: “A recent study from the Pew Hispanic Center found the number of U.S. children with at least one undocumented parent went from 2.7 million in 2003 to 4 million in 2008. More than 70 percent of all children of illegal immigrants are U.S. citizens.” Therefore, in addition to working on preventing unwanted pregnancies, the United States should use China’s and Mexico’s policies on legal and illegal immigration when Congress reforms immigration.
