A major reason for declining U.S. fertility is the drop in marriage rates. The average number of births to married couples ...

Births in America hovered near record-low rates last year. More than 3.6 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2024—a less ...

Sociologists who examined the CDC data said it reflects women who delayed having children in their 20s and chose to do so in ...

The way Americans talk about government efforts to boost birth rates is always odd. Since conservatives want more people to ...

If Elon Musk wants to boost the fertility rate and improve outcomes for children, he should promote marriage, not sperm ...

Women in the United States are less likely to have babies than ever before, but key figures in the Trump administration seem ...

Experts say infertility numbers continue to rise each year, and studies show 7 in 10 women still have not spoken with their ...

New birth data from the CDC reflects a major increase in birth rates among women over 40, as teen pregnancies continue to ...

The birth rate may be up by 1%, but the overall decline in babies born in the U.S. as been happening for decades, driven by ...

And it requires giving up a lot, too—there's an opportunity ... Hungary went from a total fertility rate—the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime—of 1.4 in 2015 ...