A better question is: Can we do more to make parenthood easier for people who want to have children?

According to recent projections, U.S. population growth will slow to zero by 2056.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. birth rate plunged to an all-time low in 2024 after being on a downward trajectory for roughly 20 years, with soaring ...

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The US birth rate grew by 1% in 2024, according to a new CDC report. Moms in their early 40s and late 30s experienced the biggest increases in births. Meanwhile, births declined the most among teens ...

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 ...

Despite apologizing for his "inappropriate" suggestion, a district-level official has been expelled from his party.

OP-ED. Instead of questioning the collective factors behind declining birth rates, the dominant narrative shifts ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written ...

California’s birth rate has hit a record low, a historic “baby bust” in a state with the world’s fourth largest economy, dipping below the birth rate of 1906, when San Francisco was recovering from ...

Birth rates have dropped from 2,000 a year to around 1,400 in the last decade, a council says.

No longer constrained to their biology, women are now free to engage with the world like modified men, making having children ...