COVID-19 has impacted essentially every aspect of American life, including women’s plans for starting or growing their families.
The COVID Family Survey, conducted by Demographic Intelligence, finds that the pandemic has led about 3% of U.S. women who were considering have children to delay their plans to have a baby. In some cases, they are pushing back their plans to have children by several years.
At the same time, 4% of U.S. women of childbearing age now wish to have more children than they previously considered because of the pandemic.
And even with the novel coronavirus dictating so many of society’s actions, American women still rate time and financial factors ahead of the pandemic when making fertility decisions.