The reasons for this trend center primarily on genetics and socio-demographic causes. The genetics argument has effectively been disputed through a study conducted in Chicago by Neonatologist Richard David and James Collins whose study also included the low birth rate results of immigrant African women into the equation. Their premise targeted continental causal factors rather than genetic underpinnings and the results of their study revealed that immigrant African women had low birth rates near or in some instances less than the rate of white women. What's more, the study showed that the rates of low birth weight babies for second generation African women born in the US were found to have escalated to percentages similar to Black women native to the United States. They concluded that there are socio-demographic stressors on women of African descent in the United States that impact the health of their unborn children while in utero.
Other studies conclude that the rate of intervals between pregnancies have a positive impact on birth rates and lessen the impact of other adverse factors for newborns. A study conducted by Rawlings, Rawlings and Read revealed that the longer the interval between pregnancies the more favorable the rate of low birth weight babies born to Black women when compared to White women. What's more, as the intervals between pregnancies increase Black women have been found to give birth to healthy newborns at a better rate than whites during the 
periods of 17-20 months between pregnancy intervals and very comparable there after. This does not imply that Blacks should plan lessor numbers of children during child bearing years, but rather they can plan to insure the health of the children that they do have by increasing the time between pregnancies along with following all of the prenatal instructions from their attending physician. JUST SAY'n
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