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Public health
fromSFGATE
1 week ago

How the Housing Market Is Impacting U.S. Birth Rates-5 Key Takeaways

Soaring housing costs contributed to the U.S. birth rate reaching an all-time low in 2024, influencing family planning and fertility timing.
fromwww.housingwire.com
1 week ago

Birth rate hits record low, housing costs weigh on family planning

The replacement level or rate needed to sustain the population is 2.1, a rate the U.S. met roughly two decades ago. The decline reflects broader social and economic shifts, including delayed marriage and parenthood. But economists and demographers cited in a Realtor.com report point to housing costs as a significant factor. Larger homes that can comfortably accommodate multiple children have become increasingly out of reach for many families, Hannah Jones, senior economic research analyst at Realtor.com, said in the report.
Real estate
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Let's stop asking why women aren't having children and ask, for once: why aren't men? | Rhiannon Lucy Coslett

Yet perhaps it's time we ask not only why aren't women having babies?, but also why aren't men? Men are largely invisible in the birthrate debate. It's ironic that amid all the pontificating and the policy ideas for encouraging more women to have babies a conversation often being had by men the other half of humanity is strikingly underexamined. Part of the problem is an absence of data: like many European countries, we don't really have any on male fertility.
UK news
Miscellaneous
fromScary Mommy
2 weeks ago

This Mom Says That Having Two Kids In The '90s Is Having Four Kids Today

U.S. average children per family and overall household size have fallen substantially since 1960, reaching about 1.94 children per family in 2023.
US politics
fromAxios
3 weeks ago

Trump immigration crackdown could spur U.S. population decline as soon as 2031

Deaths will begin outnumbering births in 2031, shifting population growth reliance to immigration amid tightened enforcement and slightly lower fertility.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Really transitional moment': what should we do about declining fertility rates?

Falling fertility rates are driving a shift to older populations, threatening schools and public finances and requiring policy changes to work, life course, and services.
World news
fromwww.nature.com
1 month ago

What Falling Global Birth Rates Really Mean for the Future

Global fertility rates have fallen sharply, producing widespread population decline with significant economic, political, and technological consequences.
Public health
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

How to reverse nation's declining birth rate? - Harvard Gazette

Policies that lower living costs, expand affordable childcare, and support older parents are more effective at addressing declining birth rates than one-time financial incentives.
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