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The Declining Birth Rate and Its Associations
6+ hour, 59+ min ago (413+ words) Consider real-world statistics in the US that have accompanied the decline in the birth rate and correspond to some of the main social indicators and trends in James's novel: rising deaths of despair, fewer overall marriages but more same-sex marriages,…...
Is the US Really an Outlier on Pregnancy Deaths, and Have Such Deaths Spiked?
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (547+ words) By Vanessa Brown Calder Figure 1. Maternal Mortality Ratio Estimates, 2020 Note: Estimates are three-year averages. Source:Maternal and infant mortality: Health at a Glance 2023 | OECD However, the figures and reporting on pregnancy and postpartum death often obscure more than they illuminate....
Waking Up to the Baby Bust
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (507+ words) By Timothy P. Carney Live-and-let-live'has always been part of the American ethos, but in recent decades, this laissez-faire individualism has become a prime directive in elite ethics. This is one reason the United States didn't start wrestling with the'baby bust'until the…...
The Link Between Maternal Drug Use and Rising Infant Mortality
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (231+ words) By Naomi Schaefer Riley | Emily Putnam-Hornstein Mississippi has just declared a public health emergency involving an alarming rise in infant mortality rates. Between 2023 and 2024, deaths of children under age one rose to 9.7 per 1,000 live births from 8.9 per 1,000 in 2023. "Every single…...
Now That We're Talking About Pregnancy and Tylenol, We Need to Talk About Pregnancy and Pot
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (520+ words) By Naomi Schaefer Riley "I think it's a very big factor," President Donald Trump told reporters recently, supporting Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s views that acetaminophen use during pregnancy is causing a spike in cases of…...
Discussing declining birth rates: Eberstadt on 'The Michael Medved Show'
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (56+ words) The American Enterprise Institute, AEI, is a nonpartisan public policy research institute with a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity and strengthening free enterprise. Senior Fellow Nicholas Eberstadt discusses declining birth rates on "The…...
What’s Holding Women Back from Starting a Family?
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (847+ words) By Brad Wilcox | Maria Baer Cooper's experience is not unlike that of a woman Brad interviewed for his book, "Get Married." A recent UVA grad, Holly said her fellow college students were "more focused on their education and getting their…...
The Stroller Struggle
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (811+ words) Last week's New Yorker cover depicts a drastically different world I'm more used to. This cover features a woman struggling to carry a sleeping young boy down a set of subway steps. No one seems to notice, a sharp contrast…...
The Baby Bust Hits the 30-Somethings
11+ mon, 6+ day ago (492+ words) America's media used to tell a story about the baby bust, that it wasn't really a baby bust, but a reshaping of the American family in the image of the highly educated urban liberal. The latest data undermine that story....