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Stateside: Michigan needs more babies

Stateside Staff — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:15:32 +0000

Michigan needs babies and it needs the women who are willing to have them.

That's the takeaway after demographer Kurt Metzger crunched the numbers and analyzed the state's birthrate.

What is going on with this "anti-baby boom," and what might this mean for us as a state?

Kurt Metzger is the director course at Data Driven Detroit. He joined us from his Detroit office to tell us about the drop in the birthrate and how it affects our state.

You can listen to our interview with him above.

Report shows increase in pregnancies out of marriage

Michigan Radio Newsroom and Laura Weber — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:15:50 +0000

Laura Weber reports:

Two-thirds of all babies born to Michigan women in their early twenties are born out of wedlock. That’s according to a new report from the Michigan League for Human Services.

The reports shows a significant uptick over the past decade in the number of babies born out of wedlock to women in their twenties.

Jane Zehnder-Merrell is with the League. She says teen pregnancies out of wedlock used to be more prevalent.