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

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

Falling global birth rates aren’t cultural, they are economic. Why fertility is collapsing and what governments can still do.

There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” shortly after reentering the White House and declared, “We want more babies.

A recent decline in U.S. birthrates has sparked debate and discussion between students and professors at the University.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Emily Scherer for The 19th) Half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth ...

CDC data confirms a drop in Black birth rates, but viral claims of 7% in 2 years and 17% since 2019 overstate it.

The United States, once an outlier among industrialized countries with respect to its high birth rate, has caught up with the low fertility trend. As birth rates decline even among its large immigrant ...

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 ...