A primary risk, as a population ages, is under-investment in children. As children make up an increasing share of the ...

Newsweek spoke to several experts about what positive cultural shifts the birth rate decline is illustrative of.

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In late June, the Atlantic ran an article titled “The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard — It’s Worse.” It posited that global fertility decline is happening much faster than official ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the “fertilization president” during Women’s History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — In a noisy market in a working class neighborhood in Santiago, Marisol Romero was selling bright balloons, little dolls and flowers to passers-by. She's in her 50s and comes from a ...

Whether it’s dating apps, doom-scrolling, delayed rites of passage, lofty living expenses or straying from pro-family values, Americans are having fewer babies — and they’re not the only ones falling ...

The enrollment cliff has long loomed in the minds of higher education leaders anticipating that a sharp decline in the number of incoming students starting around 2025 could spell disaster for their ...