While White House aides consider financial incentives for women to give birth, including the idea of a $5,000 “baby bonus,” ...

The fertility rate in the U.S. was on a constant decline between 2014 and 2020 and has fluctuated since then, CDC reports.

Governments do not control whether or how many children people have — they’ve always played a supporting role, even when ...

The idea isn’t new. Quite a few other countries already pay bonuses to parents who have children, in most cases with minimal ...

Below replacement birth rates are spreading in countries all over the world, including the US, marking a phenomenon that is ...

Families need at least 2.7 children to avoid extinction—far higher than the conventional 2.1 replacement level fertility rate due to random variations in offspring numbers. With fertility rates ...

The maternal mortality rate rose to 19 deaths per 100,000 live births, up from 18.6 the year before. The CDC counts women who ...

Despite all their blustering efforts and policies reminiscent only of dystopian novels, America’s birth rate will stay stagnant as long as American parenthood remains a prohibitive cost.

Meanwhile, the federal government under Donald Trump is mulling a range of options to increase the birth rate, including paying a birth bonus of $5,000. Given that the estimated bill doesn’t ...

Governments can control interest rates and inflation rates; stimulating birth rates is far harder. We report from the land of the rising sun—now also the land of declining sons (and daughters) ...

Americans are having fewer babies, with the annual birth rate now standing near a record low. It's a trend that has implications for the nation's long-term outlook — and has drawn attention from ...