The US birth rate grew by 1% in 2024, according to a new CDC report. Moms in their early 40s and late 30s experienced the biggest increases in births. Meanwhile, births declined the most among teens ...

Births in the United States held near record low numbers in 2024, up just 1%, a statistic that could fuel President Donald Trump’s recent drive to pursue policies to encourage childrearing. Only 3.62 ...

With just 10.2 births per 1,000 population through 2023, the rate has dropped more than half since the baby boom after World ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for a "concerted effort to promote choices at all levels in favor of the family" amid falling birth ...

A new CDC report says about 3.6 million babies were both in the U.S. in 2024. That’s up by about 1% from the number of births in 2023, which was at the lowest tally since 1979. Meanwhile, the Trump ...

KELSEY PIPER: A lot of the way the economy is set up, institutions like Social Security, they were built when we had a growing population. And they do have a sort of assumption baked into them that ...

The U.S. birth rate plunged to an all-time low in 2024 after being on a downward trajectory for roughly 20 years, with soaring housing costs widely cited as a major contributing factor. Earlier this ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — In a noisy market in a working class neighborhood in Santiago, Marisol Romero was selling bright balloons, little dolls and flowers to passers-by. She's in her 50s and comes from a ...

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 ...