Study suggests reversing birth rate decline requires out-of-box policy ideas like generous baby bonuses. It also helps if a ...

Below‑replacement fertility is widespread across the country, according to the report by the Institute for Family Studies.

The iPhone was introduced in 2007, the same year the U.S. birth rate started to slide. The issues could be linked, a new analysis finds.

The number of babies born in the United States fell again last year. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 3.6 million births in 2025, a 1% decline from ...

iPhones may have slightly exacerbated an already underway drop in unintended pregnancies among teens. That's the big finding in a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic ...

In 1775, a year before the Declaration of Independence was signed, a Harvard professor named Edward Wigglesworth did the math ...

New research links smartphone adoption to nearly half of America's fertility decline through reduced relationship formation. The post Are Smartphones Behind the Drop in U.S. Birth Rates? Researchers ...

Katie Miller, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, condemned the teen birth rate having declined in a recent post on X. Miller shared a screenshot of a graph charting the birth ...

The arrival of the iPhone nearly 20 years ago may have had a direct impact on declining birth rates, a new study argues. The working study, which was published by the National Bureau of Economic ...

The U.S. is facing a declining birth rate due to a lack of paid leave, discrimination against pregnant workers, unaffordable ...

Seems people might prefer their iPhones to parenthood. AI image: ChatGPT/Cult of Mac For years, economists blamed declining birth rates in the United States on rising housing costs, student debt, ...