Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why.

Financial concerns also led people to have fewer children than what they considered to be ideal: 64 percent said it was because child care was ...

Why Americans Are Having Fewer Babies - WSJ

The US birthrate is down sharply from 15 years ago, as women report that economic and social obstacles are causing them to have fewer children than they want.

Americans are having fewer kids—if they have them at all

The Pew Research report found that 17% of childless adults under 50 said they probably wouldn't have kids for financial reasons. The country has ...

Millennials aren't having kids. Here's why. - The Washington Post

And a hefty 56 percent said they just didn't want kids. (The remainder pointed to medical reasons, financial reasons and lack of a partner. The ...

Why are Americans having less kids or choosing not to? - Reddit

Sky high fees for childcare. And more women have realized they are not obligated to have children. More women realize the danger of giving birth ...

Falling birth rate not due to less desire to have children | Carolina ...

Birth rates are falling in the United States, but it isn't because Americans say they want fewer kids. In fact, young Americans haven't changed the number of ...

Why fewer Americans are having kids - The Hill

More than a third of childless adults over 50 who took part in the Pew survey said a major reason they did not have children was because they ...

Why are Americans having fewer kids? - Quora

The single largest reason for not having more kids is that childcare is too expensive, especially relative to the cost of living: 64% of young ...

Why a growing share of Americans don't want kids - CNBC

The reasons that more Americans say “no” to parenthood are more complex than they often appear, though. Becoming a parent is expensive, but ...

U.S. Births in 2023 Fell to Lowest in Decades | TIME

US births declined in 2023 to their lowest level in more than 40 years, continuing a two-decade trend of Americans having fewer children.

Americans are having fewer babies as birth rate hits historic low ...

The U.S. birth rate has been on a steady decline, as fewer Americans are having kids. Experts weigh in on varying factors, including career, ...

Why Are So Many Americans Choosing to Not Have Children?

“It's not about being selfish and saying, 'I'm not having kids because I want to sleep in all the time,'” Dr. Guzzo said. “When fertility rates ...

Americans Are Having Fewer Babies Than Ever. What Can Be Done ...

This spring the U.S. fertility rate dropped to another historic low. And a potential American baby bust has become a campaign issue. WSJ Chief ...

Baby Bust: How a Family-Unfriendly Culture Has Left Us with Fewer ...

Both of these explanations have an appeal, but they have the same fatal flaw. Yes, both cost and selfishness deter people from having kids or ...

Why more U.S. adults are choosing not to have kids - Axios

In the U.S., it's the child-free group — not people having fewer children — that's driving much of the decline, per an analysis reported in the ...

Americans' views of fewer people having children | Pew Research ...

Among those adults, 57% say a major reason they're unlikely to have kids is that they just don't want to, according to a new Pew Research Center ...

Americans are having fewer babies. They told us why. - SFGATE

Americans are having fewer babies. They told us why. ... Americans are having fewer babies. At first, researchers thought the declining fertility ...

Americans aren't making enough babies to replace ourselves

Government researchers did not offer an explanation, but experts cited factors including changing economics and fewer teen pregnancies. U.S. ...

Americans are having too few kids. The GOP made the problem worse.

Why should you care about the baby bust? A couple of reasons. First, Americans' own preferences: They're having fewer kids than they say they ...

You can't even pay people to have more kids - Vox

There's evidence, for example, that some people are having fewer children than they want. In a 2018 US poll, about a quarter of respondents said ...