In Greece, fewer babies means difficult decisions, especially on remote islands where low birth rates are forcing some ...

Politicians need to make parenting more affordable and more compatible with working life, writes Stephanie Psaki.

Famous for baby boxes and expansive pro-family policies, Finland continues to see one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, as ...

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 ...

The U.S. birth rate plunged to an all-time low in 2024 after being on a downward trajectory for roughly 20 years, with soaring housing costs widely cited as a major contributing factor. Earlier this ...

Nearly 10 years ago, a Southern California Gas Company storage facility in Aliso Canyon leaked methane for almost four months, spewing years’ worth of planet-heating carbon emissions into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

With just 10.2 births per 1,000 population through 2023, the rate has dropped more than half since the baby boom after World ...

South Carolina, according to Child Care Aware of America. For many families, especially families with multiple children, ...

"Listen to moms," Devin Bailey-Nicholas says. "When we sit down and really listen to their concerns, whether they've had a ...

Birth registrations in 2024 fell to 369,944, marking a 2.6% decrease from the 379,890 births recorded the year before ...