A better question is: Can we do more to make parenthood easier for people who want to have children?

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 ...

OP-ED. Instead of questioning the collective factors behind declining birth rates, the dominant narrative shifts responsibility onto women, laments Brigitte Grésy, former president of France's High ...

Much of the attention on the world's plunging birth rate is on East Asian countries like Japan and South Korea. But Latin American countries, like Chile, are also seeing a decline in fertility. Birth ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago -- the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

Each year, more than one in 10 babies worldwide are born prematurely, a new report finds. The report ranks the United States No. 131 in the world in terms of its preterm birth rate, ranking behind ...

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 ...