Kennedy Jr. proclaimed the decline in birth rates to be “a national security threat.” In short, the administration has embraced rhetoric that is unabashedly pronatalist — an ideology created to raise ...

Humanity has entered a new era of rapid population decline. Globally, the total fertility rate is likely already below replacement—that is, below the level needed to sustain the population in the long ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the “fertilization president” during Women’s History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

Jonathan is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. Americans’ family-size preferences have not changed much since 1975. But since the Great Recession, U.S. adults ...

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Canada is experiencing something that would have seemed impossible to our grandparents: families are getting smaller, and fewer babies are being born each year. The numbers tell a stark story. This ...