Louisiana had the third-highest teen birth rate in the country with 23.1 teen births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19, according to 2023 birth data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

There’s been a bit of an obsession with declining birth rates lately, particularly on the right. That has sparked conversations about policies that might entice people to have more children.

Everything we’ve worked toward the past three generations is now coming to fruition. Teen birth rates are down; most women can now effectively manage birth control; the patriarchy has been muted.

As global birth rates continue to decline, the Trump administration has announced that it is considering policies aimed at reversing this trajectory for the United States. According to a recent ...

During a recent school board meeting, Stewartville Public Schools Superintendent Belinda Selfors discussed the impact of birth rates. She explained said in a district with 9,000 residents ...

As China’s youth express reluctance to have children, and those with one child less than enthusiastic over the prospect of more, one densely populated region in the southern province of ...

An additional factor to the obstacles to promoting the birth rate has been the constant emigration of young families. Demographic changes, in the opinion of local specialists, imply low economic ...

Births in the United States increased by just 1% in 2024, still near the record low rates that have alarmed demographers and become a central part of the Trump administration’s cultural agenda ...

The way Americans talk about government efforts to boost birth rates is always ... in America's falling fertility rate is an absolutely massive decline in teen pregnancies.) Better education ...

The Trump administration is proposing incentives like a $5,000 baby bonus and expanded IVF access to boost the declining U.S. birth rate. Pope Leo XIV's voting history sparks speculation on ...

U.S. birth rate hit low in 2023, report shows The birth rate hit a low in 2023, when just under 3.6 million babies were born in the United States. That year’s total was about 76,000 less than ...