Would a trophy or tax break be enough to convince Americans to have more children? Countries around the world with plummeting ...

The number of births increased in the United States for the first time in seven years, according to a new federal report. Provisional data published Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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.

A mother lulls her newborn baby at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado on April 1, 2025. Credit - Hyoung Chang—The Denver Post From Tokyo to Berlin, getting more women into the workforce, and ...

San Francisco has one of the highest shares of babies born through in vitro fertilization in the country, a Chronicle ...

Republicans have gone from belly-aching about prolific “welfare queens” to wringing their hands about the low birth rate and ...

Black women living in states with abortion bans were more likely to have preterm babies, compared with what would be expected ...

The Trump administration’s ideologues keep coming back to birth rates. The new National Security Strategy, released on Friday, declares that Europe is facing “the stark prospect of civilizational ...

When fertility rates shrink, and economies worry, governments across the globe often turn to control women’s bodies and ...