RealClearScience

Falling U.S. Birth Rates Won't Lead to Population Collapse

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 ...
Fast Company

3 things the pronatalist movement gets wrong about birth rates

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 Heritage Foundation

Fertility in the United States Is Below Replacement

Jonathan is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. The total fertility rate in the U.S. has been below replacement for the past half-century. Childbearing in the ...
Phys.org

Fears that falling birth rates in the US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions

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 ...
Penn Live

Fears that fewer births in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions | The Conversation

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 ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Voices: I study child-rearing. The reasons behind Utah’s declining fertility rate might surprise you.

Twenty years ago, Utah had the highest fertility rates in the country. But since 2007, the total fertility rate in Utah has dropped from 2.68 births per woman to 1.80 births. This trend isn’t unique ...
PBS

So you want to increase your country’s birth rate? Experts say it’s tough

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 ...
Live Science

Dangers of falling birth rates in the US have been 'dramatically overstated,' experts say

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...
STAT

I’m a fertility doctor, and I think IVF needs more regulation

In the face of rising national infertility and economic uncertainty, the institution of family is more important than ever. With 1 in 6 globally experiencing infertility, the current administration’s ...
News Medical

Why having 2.1 kids isn't enough to prevent extinction

New research finds that the fertility rate needed to sustain a population is much higher than once thought, especially when sex ratios or mortality rates shift. This raises important questions for ...

Countries with the lowest fertility rates — where does the US stand?

Global fertility rates are steadily declining, with even Africa seeing a significant drop. Wealthier nations like Europe and North America now have th ...