Proportion bearing no children.-The next table shows the proportion of women under 45 years of age married 10 to 19 years who have borne no children, the figures for Cleveland and the 48 largely rural counties being presented separately. TABLE 12.-Women under 45 years of age married ten to nineteen years, classified by parentage and nativity: Total number tabulated, and number and per cent bearing no children. TABLE 12.-Women under 45 years of age married ten to nineteen years, classified by parentage and nativity: Total number tabulated, and number and per cent bearing no children-Continued. OHIO: CLEVELAND AND 48 RURAL COUNTIES. 1900-Continued. Of the native white women of native parentage shown in the foregoing table as residing in Cleveland the proportion that had borne no children was 15.2 per cent, and of the white women of foreign parentage it was 6.3 per cent, a much smaller proportion. In the 48 largely rural counties the difference between these two classes is not very great, 5.7 per cent of the native white women having borne no children as compared with 5.1 per cent of the white women of foreign parentage. For nearly all classes the percentage of married women bearing no children was somewhat larger in the city of Cleveland than in the rural counties. In the case of native white women the percentage for Cleveland was nearly three times as great. These comparisons indicate in a striking way the effect which city life and environment have had in reducing the fecundity of the native American people. In the rural counties the childless married women of native American stock are hardly more numerous proportionately than those of foreign parentage; but in the city of Cleve land the contrast between the two classes in this respect is v marked, as is indicated by the percentages cited above, and thi trast arises largely from the decline in the fecundity of women of 82401°-VOL 2-11-31 |