According to the National Center for Health Statistics, more than one million millennials celebrated being new mothers last year in America. It is calculated that there is over 16 million new American mothers of this generation in total.
Women who were born between 1981 and 1997 are the millennials. in 2015, the women of this generation made up for 82 percent of births. It is estimated that millennial women are becoming mothers later on in life, as they aim to flourish their careers and are not so focused on marriage first.
Millennials claim that being a parent brings them closer to their identity, as stated in an article online which shows numerous statistics.