Americans are having fewer children than ever before, with the general fertility rate (meaning the number of births in a given year per 1,000 women aged 15-44) hitting a historic low in 2016. Less ...

The rapidly declining marriage and fertility rates across developed East Asian societies strain pension and health care systems, threaten economic growth, and reshape entire societies. To tackle this ...

CDC data shows overall births falling, but the real concern is a decline in marriages — a trend with profound implications for the life of the Church. Married women’s birth rates fell from about 87.4 ...

Research Fellow, Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget Rachel Sheffield is a Research Fellow, Welfare and Family Policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal ...

Hyderabad: Horoscope mismatches, long a feature of arranged-marriage negotiations, are now emerging as an unexpected factor driving some women in Hyderabad to consider egg freezing, according to ...

Japan’s total fertility rate fell to a record low of 1.14 in 2025, with declining marriage rates an important part of the explanation. Economic insecurity has made starting a family a more difficult ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A recent study evaluated young women’s knowledge about fertility and infertility treatment. There were ...