The number of births increased in the United States for the first time in seven years, according to a new federal report. Provisional data published Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Over one in 150 births ended in a stillbirth, with a significantly higher rate of one in 112 in low-income areas.

The United States, once an outlier among industrialized countries with respect to its high birth rate, has caught up with the low fertility trend. As ...

People are having fewer children worldwide, but the trend is particularly marked in countries like China and less so in Africa.

Low birth weight remains one of the most persistent indicators of maternal and infant health disparities in the United States ...

Philadelphia will offer financial compensation to pregnant women amid falling birth rates, in a bid to combat infant ...

The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it's been in more than a ...

Politicians need to make parenting more affordable and more compatible with working life, writes Stephanie Psaki.

Rep. Michelle Salzman has established a task force to help ensure mothers have healthier pregnancies and babies.

In a Fox News segment last year on America’s declining birth rate, former congressman Sean Duffy joked about how he would “lose count” of his nine kids, and urged viewers to follow his lead in having ...