The US birth rate increased by 1% in 2024, with millennial moms in their 30s and early 40s experiencing the biggest increases ...

Making more babies by threat, faux incentives, or even force is not a goal or a solution. And it ignores the desperate, real ...

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

In debates about declining birth rates, we ignore the joy of parenting.

As the Trump administration floats potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth rate, experts tell PBS News that ...

The infant mortality national rate dropped to about 5.5 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted Thursday.

Recent research indicates that smaller population sizes and random variations in birth rates increase the fertility threshold ...

After years of ominous headlines about the world's shrinking birth rates, there's a bright spot. The US birth rate increased slightly in 2024, according to preliminary data from the CDC.

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 ...