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In Italy, rising anxiety over falling birth rates
Family size has been shrinking in the industrialized world for decades, and in Italy, the decline has been particularly dramatic. A generation ago, Italian mothers commonly had more than four children. Now they average less than two. Demographers warn that…
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The surprising thing about the declining U.S. birth rate
More than 3.8 million babies were born in the U.S. last year, but the birth rate drop was the largest one-year decline since 2010. Why hasn’t the downward trend changed direction, even though economic conditions have improved? Amna Nawaz explores…
The nation’s birth rate declined in 2015, new data says
Research shows women gave birth to nearly 4 million babies in the U.S. in 2015, down 1 percent from a year earlier. This is a small, but noteworthy drop.
Why is the teen birth rate so much higher in rural areas?
For the first time, government researchers studied teen birth rates in rural and urban counties. The differences surprised them.
Economist Todd Buchholz rails against what America has become: a people who want everything but aren’t willing to pay for it. In “The Price of Prosperity,” he suggests that wealthy nations such as the U.S. inflict harm on themselves, even…
Between 2013 and 2015, half of nearly 6,000 women age 15 to 44 said they plan to have children, according to the National Survey of Family Growth, considered the gold standard for surveys about family planning in the United States.
China’s Communist Party changed its longstanding one-child policy to allow couples to have two children. While the original policy was introduced in 1979 to curb a surging population, the country now faces a labor shortage and the needs of its…
Guatemala's Archbishop Oscar Julio Vian Morales calls for more education about natural family planning, and encourages Guatemala's men to change their attitudes towards women.
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