A new report warns falling birth and marriage rates pose long-term risks, urging major policy changes to strengthen family ...

The number of births increased in the United States for the first time in seven years, according to a new federal report. Provisional data published Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Trump administration is reportedly seeking ways to raise the American birth rate, considering incentives ranging from a $5,000 cash “baby bonus” to a “National Medal of Motherhood” ...

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While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Authors: Leslie Root, University of Colorado Boulder; Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Shelley Clark, McGill University Pronatalism – the belief that low birth ...

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 ...

The United States is one of many countries struggling with declining birth rates and this is partly because more people are abandoning religion, population and religion experts told Newsweek. There ...

The rising cost of housing is one of the main drivers behind the United States' falling birth rate between the 2000s and the 2010s, a new study shows. Birth rates are complex and nuanced, and ...