Maternal mortality rates are rising, especially for Black women. In one community in Georgia, some women say they are losing trust in doctors and hospitals.

Many countries have very low fertility, which leads to both population decline and a much older population. The United Nations reports that 10% of countries now have fertility below 1.4 births per ...

Society / A conversation with the medical sociologist about her new book, Get It Out, and the perils of considering abortion, hysterectomy, and gender-affirming care as separate issues. Sara Franklin ...

Much of the attention on the world's plunging birth rate is on East Asian countries like Japan and South Korea. But Latin American countries, like Chile, are also seeing a decline in fertility.

Objective To estimate absolute risks of obstetric outcomes in the USA according to maternal age at first birth from age 15 to 45 separately by maternal race. Design and setting Population-based cohort ...

US adults want the government to focus on child care costs, not birth rates, poll finds The survey reveals only 12% think encouraging more births should be a high priority, while 62% see it as a ...

While the Trump administration explores ways to encourage Americans to have more babies and reverse the United States’ falling birth rate, a new poll finds that relatively few U.S. adults see ...

A new poll in the U.S. shows Americans are more concerned about the financial cost of raising a child rather than declining birth rates overall.

Meanwhile, the United States could make childbirth free for privately insured families, in an effort to tackle declining birth rates.

This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for the majority of countries, new analysis shows.

Why are people freaking out about the birth rate? There's one little statistic that seems to have gained a lot of attention recently: the birth rate.

But then [Scandinavian birth rates] fell off a cliff, too. There are traditional conservative pronatalists, and there are also more tech-oriented pronatalists, but it seems like these groups have a ...