America’s long birth rate decline continues and a new report from the Institute for Family Studies predicts trouble ahead, ...

One-size-fits-all fetal growth charts used in the NHS to monitor babies' growth before birth often misclassify babies as ...

One-size-fits-all fetal growth charts used in the NHS to monitor babies' growth before birth often misclassify babies as ...

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Housing costs soared. Families got smaller. Religious affiliation shifted. But not every trend is what you’d expect.

In a week of reflection on both a mad first half of 2026 and the 250th anniversary of the U.S., the political and economic ...

U.S. fertility rates continued to decline in the first quarter of 2026 despite the efforts of the Trump administration to boost births.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate the birth rate in the United States fell to a record low last year. It is not a new trend, nor is it unique to the U ...

The arrival of the iPhone nearly 20 years ago may have had a direct impact on declining birth rates, a new study argues. The working study, which was published by the National Bureau of Economic ...

A decades-long decline in the U.S. fertility rate has confounded policymakers and economists alike, with experts pointing to possible causes ranging from the economic fallout of the Great Recession to ...

As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new U.S. studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit—the smartphone. "Is the iPhone Birth Control?" asked a ...