In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.
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On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.
Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deaths, and children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not.
In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has declined significantly, from approximately 14 million in 1979 to slightly less than eight million in 2010.
In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36 percent of white children. Indeed, a single parent is the new norm.
Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.
Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.
My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.
In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.