Couples who work from home at least one day a week are having more children and planning larger families, according to a ...

From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something ...

A new analysis of Child Measurement Program data from England, Scotland, and Wales challenges recent reports suggesting children in Britain are getting shorter. The analysis, conducted by researchers ...

There has been a perception that the decline is being driven exclusively by highly educated women from privileged backgrounds. But researchers found that teenagers and white women ages 20 to 24 ...

The political class is worried about the historic drop. But the biggest change is among the youngest women, who are the least ready to have children.

A report from think tank Pioneer Institute argues that soaring housing costs and mounting tax pressures are contributing to a ...

South Korea's birthrate rose for a second straight year in 2025, government data showed on Wednesday, in a further sign that ...

Introduction Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive condition involving movement and muscle tone difficulties due to injury to the developing brain. Most cases arise around birth, but a smaller ...

All 29-year-old French citizens are to be encouraged by their government to have babies while they still can. Health officials say the aim is to avoid these men and women facing fertility problems ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births fell a little in 2025, according to newly posted provisional data. Slightly over 3.6 million births have been reported through birth certificates, or about 24,000 fewer ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births fell a little in 2025, according to newly posted provisional data. War in the Mideast widens Iranian-Americans fear for relatives Trump pushes back on mounting criticism ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...