President Donald Trump announced a new proposed rule Monday that would allow employers to provide standalone health insurance coverage for fertility benefits. The rule would create a supplemental ...

Peter Foreshaw Brookes says economic conditions and smartphone usage (and its effects on coupling) are more likely causes The global drop in fertility has a number of causes, but rising biological ...

Americans having fewer kids plus an ageing population could be a recipe for disaster that further erodes social stability Remember environmentalist Paul Ehrlich’s 1960s-vintage prediction about how ...

The U.S. general fertility rate fell by 1 percent in 2025, reaching a new record low for another consecutive year according to latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

April 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low last year, extending a nearly two-decade decline, provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ‌showed on Thursday.

The nation’s fertility rates hit record lows in 2025 as childbearing continued to shift toward older women, according to new federal data released Thursday. For the sixth straight year, the number of ...

The fertility rate has been falling since 2007, in large part because of a plunge among teenagers. By Sabrina Tavernise The U.S. fertility rate fell slightly in 2025, to another record low, extending ...

The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and new federal data shows that another drop last year brought the rate down to the lowest on record. About 3.6 million ...

The fertility rate in the United States fell slightly to a historic low in 2025 as fewer teenagers and young women had babies, according to federal data released Thursday. Roughly 3.6 million babies ...

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