Diana Adam, 35, and her husband wanted to have a second child this year. The timing just seemed right. She had a job as a software engineer at a big market research company near San Francisco, California, and it had good benefits -- including paid maternity leave. He was looking for a faculty position after finishing his Ph.D. in sociology but had a steady job as a lecturer at a state university. Their first child, a boy, was three.

But that was before the economic meltdown. Since then, her husband's hours were cut at work and may dry up completely in the fall. At least half of the faculty positions he's applied for were cut due to hiring freezes. Adam herself survived a round of layoffs at her job, but still doesn't feel completely secure. "Right now we are postponing [a pregnancy] to definitely next year at the earliest," Adam said. Continue article at original source

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