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 ...

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 ...

Just when you think smartphone panic can't get any more dumb, it always does. Case in point: People are insisting that phones are why people worldwide are having fewer kids. There's one very simple, ...

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.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Roughly 60 years after the post-WWII baby boom ended, the global birth rate is less than half what it ...

The newest March of Dimes report gives the U.S. a D+ rating on preterm birth rates. IvanJekic/E+ via Getty Images Seven years ago, at 30 weeks into a seemingly low-risk pregnancy, I unexpectedly began ...

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 News/SurveyMonkey Poll fielded in September. Mary Aured, a ...

The newest March of Dimes report gives the US a D+ rating on preterm birth rates. The Conversation — Seven years ago, at 30 weeks into a seemingly low-risk pregnancy, I unexpectedly began to bleed.

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 ...