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.

Here's a reality that is changing the planet: Births are declining across the globe as people opt for different parenting choices amid evolving family dynamics. From the U.S. to Singapore, the global ...

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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 ...

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 ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago -- the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

Matthew Hennessey is correct that Congress alone can’t boost the birth rate (“You Can’t Legislate Fertility,” op-ed, June 24). This isn’t a libertarian aphorism. It’s the fairest reading of the global ...

The Trump administration’s ideologues keep coming back to birth rates. The new National Security Strategy, released on Friday, declares that Europe is facing “the stark prospect of civilizational ...

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