When my wife and I said “No” to in vitro fertilization, we assumed that we were rejecting our last hope of bearing children. Our years of infertility were unexplained and unresolved, despite the best efforts […]
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CNA Newsroom, Jul 3, 2024 / 16:27 pm (CNA).
Voters in Baltimore will decide this fall whether to approve a $1,000 bonus that parents would receive upon the birth or adoption of a child.Led by the Mary… […]
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CNA Staff, Jun 20, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Advocates and policymakers have for years argued that extending family benefits — such as paid leave, job guarantees, and cash payouts for new babies — could help reverse the… […]
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CNA Staff, May 7, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
As global fertility rates continue to decline, even majority-Catholic and historically Catholic countries aren’t free from the demographic collapse, which increasingly … […]
Fertility rose at the end of the Depression and the end of World War II with the baby boom, to more than 3.5 births for every woman by 1960 — then plummeted immediately thereafter. / Credit: Glenn|Wikimedia|CC BY-SA 2.0
Washington D.C., May 2, … […]
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA).
Provisional data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week showed that the fertility rate in the United States hit… […]
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CNA Staff, Apr 10, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA).
“Growth is anticipated.”That’s how the Tokyo-based company Oji Holdings described the Japanese adult diaper economy last week. The company announced in a press relea… […]
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CNA Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA).
The fertility rate in Texas rose by a statistically significant amount in the wake of the state’s pro-life laws, a University of Houston study has found. Texas… […]
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CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA).
In addition to social and cultural trends affecting marriage and birth rates, new findings from a meta-analysis released last month found “evidence of an association” bet… […]
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CNA Staff, Nov 10, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).
The U.S. population will peak later this century before experiencing a decline by 2100, the U.S. Census Bureau said this week, with low fertility numbers partly explaining th… […]
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