Pandemic has a third of American women re-thinking motherhood plans

Women, especially Black women, have lost more jobs than men during virus lockdowns. FMTNews America Women Motherhood Pandemic Season

NEW YORK: A third of US women want to postpone pregnancy or have fewer children because of the coronavirus, a change of plans more prevalent among Black women whose communities have been among the hardest hit, research showed on Wednesday.

The broad hesitation among women about having children post-pandemic reflects the impact of sweeping unemployment, loss of health insurance, recession, job uncertainty and the unsteady pace of economic recovery, it said. “These are also the same groups who are more likely to say that because of the pandemic, they want to delay or reduce having a child right now,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.“We’re going to see an ongoing and increasing impact, particularly if the economic situation in the US remains uncertain,” she said.Also the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact in Black communities, and Black people are getting and dying of Covid-19 at high rates than white people, data shows.

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