The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
Small American Born Families

rntage included in the Rhode Island | tabulation 5S.7 per cent had not had more than two children while of the white women of foreign percentage the percentage was 269, only 9.2 per cent | Of the white women of native percentage had more than five children, while of the white women of foreign parentage, 55.4 per cent had more than that num- ber, and the percentage of French | Canadians with more than that num- her of children was SAP
 | The French Canadian immigrants are bearing children two and one-haf times | as fast as the native American women. The Italian women closely approach, but do not quite equal the French Cana. | dians. sz
 | Of the native white women of native | percentage, married ten to nineteen years, residing in Cleveland, 15.2 per cent had | borne no children, and of white women of foreign, percentage the percentage was 6.3. In the 4s largely rural counties in | Ohio the difference between these two classes is not great, 57 per cent of the white women of native parentage having born no children, as compared with 5l | per cent of the white women of for eign percentage. For nearly all classes | the parentage of married women bear | ing no children was larger in the city | of Cleveland than in the rural counties, | but in the case of native white women | the percentage for Cleveland was near.y three times great. The smallest per centages of childlessness in Cleveland were shown by the Polish women, 2l per cent, and by the Bohemian and Rus- sian women. 26 per cent; and the large st by the French women, 23.5 per cent. In the rural counties the smallest percent T age was 1.9 per cent for the Swedish women and the largest 6.5 for English, Canadian and English women.
 Of the native white women of native
 parentage in Cleveland 59.7 per cent have
 had only 1 or ? children or none at all. The percentage bearing more than five children was 6.3. For the white women
 of foreign percentage the corresponding
 percentages were 25.3 and 31.4.
 Conditions in Minnesota
 In Minneapolis 12.7 per cent of native
 white women of native percentage, who
 had been married between 10 and l9
 years, had had no children. For the
 corresponding class of white women of
 foreign percentage the percentage hav-
 ing no children was 6.9. . In the rural
 counties of Minnesota the corresponding percentage of the white women of na :.
 tive percentage was .5I and of white
 women of foreign parentage 2.7. Both
 in Minneapolis and the rural counties the proportion or CnllqleSSpeSS was about
 twice as great for the women of native
 parentage. as for those of foreign parent , age.
 Of the white women of native parent
 age in Minneapolis, considered in tne
 tabulation, 57.1 per cent had borne not
 more than two children, if any at all The percentage of those bearing mors
 than five children was 5.9 per cent of
 the total For women of foreign par.
 entage the corresponding percentages
 were 29.9 and 23.3 Families of more than five children had been borne by 59 per cent of the white mothers O. , American percentage in Minneapolis a. } compared with 23.S per cent by mothers
 of foreign parentage In the case o1 Bohemian and Polish mothers the pro-
 portion having large families Cover five
 children) was greater than 60 per cent
 A table showing the average number
 of children borne by women under 4
 years of age. married 10 to 1s years, ir Rhode Island, Cleveland, Minneapolis, ru ral Ohio and rural Minnesota, gives tho
 following results: Average number fol
 all classes, 41 native white of nativ,
 percentage. 2.7; white of foreign parent
 age. A: Austrian, 4.6; Bohemian, 5; Ca nadan English, 3.5: Canadian French 56; Danish. AS; English. 3.4; Finnish 5. 9 French, 43 German, 4.3; Hungarian, 4.5 Irish, Az Italian. 4.9; Norwegian, 4.7 Polish. 62 Russian, 5.4; Scotch. 3.6; Swe
 dish, 4.2; Swiss, A; Welsh, 3.S; other for
 eign. 4.3; native negro, 3.1. rt