With rare exceptions, developed nations are falling short of the replacement-level fertility (2.1 births per woman) necessary to maintain populations. The ramifications are significant. For example, ...

In contemporary society, discussions increasingly focus on career advancement, secondary income opportunities, travel, and ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the "fertilization president" during Women's History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

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 ...

In late June, the Atlantic ran an article titled “The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard — It’s Worse.” It posited that global fertility decline is happening much faster than official ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The declining birth rate has been a major topic of discussion, with governments all over the world trying to find ways to reverse it. There is a constantly evolving discussion about the causes of the ...

The enrollment cliff has long loomed in the minds of higher education leaders anticipating that a sharp decline in the number of incoming students starting around 2025 could spell disaster for their ...

This article was originally published in The 19th. Half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth rates on society, according to the 2025 19th ...