The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support ...

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Governments all over the world are trying to reverse the birth rate decline, with almost every country on the planet facing the challenges that may come with fewer babies being born. A major issue is ...

Pronatalism—the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed—is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

In October, NPR examined how the decline in birth rates in industrialized nations is changing the way we live. It’s not just economically, but also: who’s going to care for an aging population? Will ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio is part of a downward trend in birth rates that has occurred in nearly every state in the country, and the financial impacts of fewer new humans could start impacting the state’s ...

The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with fewer than 1.6 children being born per woman, federal data released Thursday shows. The U.S. was once among only a few developed ...