Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system, where today’s workers fund the benefits of current retirees. As the number of contributors declines and the number of beneficiaries rises, the system faces ...

The U.S. faces a crisis that has yet to make itself widely known: Women are having fewer and fewer children with each passing year. Whereas in 2007 the U.S. averaged 2.12 births per woman, that number ...

Trump wants a ‘baby boom’ and his ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ includes cash incentives. But evidence from around the world shows it ...

American babies born in the next three years are set to receive $1,000 as part of investment accounts that will be set up under the Republicans' sweeping tax and spending bill. But experts say parents ...

Differences in the relationships between maternal age at first birth and absolute risks of pregnancy outcomes according to maternal race are not well understood. This paper presents absolute risks of ...

The paper argues that declining fertility in high-income countries is driven less by economic constraints and more by a ...

Parents can contribute up to $5,000 per year, post-tax, and their employers can contribute up to $2,500. While experts say there's no downside to taking the $1,000 in seed funding, there are ...

A major new JAMA study reveals that American children are dying at rates up to 80% higher than kids in other wealthy ...

Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging ...

Elon Musk warns of a looming population crisis linked to declining birth rates, connecting it to historical civilizational collapses. He urges families to have more children, as global fertility ...

There's a rise of pronatalism in our politics and our culture. Is a falling birth rate an issue? Why are people freaking out about the birth rate? There's one little statistic that seems to have ...