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The US birth rate keeps declining: 4 questions answered

  • Written by Marie Menke, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
The US birth rate keeps declining: 4 questions answeredMany American women are having children later in life.Sopotnicki/Shutterstock.com

Over the last few decades, birth rates have decreased across the globe.

The United States is no exception. Aside from a few years in the mid-2000s, the number of births in the United States have been falling for the last three decades and have now reached their lowest...

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