The 2021 Baby Boom Didn't Last
But there were still 47,573 more births last year than there were in 2020.
But there were still 47,573 more births last year than there were in 2020.
The right and the left are pushing pro-natalist polices that have never worked and are deeply misguided.
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Politicians' go-to fixes like child tax credits and federal paid leave are known for creating disincentives to work without much impact on fertility.
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The policy has some bipartisan support, despite the fact that it has mostly been a failure since its inception.
All of these advances are in mice for now, but maybe these breakthroughs can one day be adapted as human therapies.
IVF at "significant risk"
"Synthetic wombs make having kids much faster, easier, cheaper, and more accessible."
The claim that men face ‘environmental emasculation’ via exposure to synthetic endocrine disruptors is debunked.
Politicians and the media are telling bogus stories about falling fertility rates, rising inequality, and lack of economic mobility.
Americans have a reputation for being cockeyed optimists, but we're suckers when it comes to "declension narratives" about the fallen state of our world.
Americans are freely choosing to have fewer children.
A new working paper argues that car seat laws are discouraging moms from having a third child.
The total fertility rate falls to its lowest level ever.
Negative population growth back in 1919 was largely the result of the Spanish flu pandemic
The global total fertility rate fell by more than half, from 5 births per woman in 1960 to 2.4 today. But don't panic!
He Jiankui's moral failings should not be used as an excuse to delay a technology that could prevent inheritable diseases.
A U.K. bioethicist makes the case for deploying CRISPR gene-editing to modify human embryos in the next two years.
The number of children that families choose to have is none of the government's business.
Is that kind of gene-editing unethical?
Sanity prevails (for now) in Alabama case that sparked national outrage.
Thanks to global expansion of reproductive freedom, actual population growth is likely to be less and peak around the middle this century
It would be deeply immoral to require parents to select for particular traits, but it is also wrong to deny them the chance to make life easier for their children.
A new international commission will consider the pros and cons of human genome editing.
Is the solution a "fertility dividend" that makes a portion of a person's Social Security benefit dependent on each of their offspring's earnings?
Flinging around such terms is not helpful and does not advance the debate.
If it's safe, then it's ethical. No need for a global moratorium.
Falling fertility means that folks now have increasing power to choose the number of children that they wish to have.
There is no compelling ethical reason to limit this exercise of reproductive liberty.
If you read Reason you already know these three pieces of good news about global trends.
Maybe, but it's more likely that Americans chose to have fewer kids.
Exercising reproductive freedom is a good thing.
A new article in BioScience vindicates The End of Doom.
"Governments should follow the principle of regulatory parsimony," two bioethicists argue.
Ronald Bailey's 11-minute talk at Voice & Exit on the awesome 21st century.
New report claims U.S. overpopulation will blight their futures.
There's an easy way to make more Americans: immigration.
Increased wealth and technological progress give people greater liberty to decide when, how, with whom, and if they want to reproduce.
Anti-designer baby bioethicists call for "an immediate global ban."
Breakthrough that could cure genetic diseases before embryos are implanted in their mothers' wombs.
Neo-Malthusianism in the Sunday New York Times
Bioethicists in Britain say yes. But there are no such limits in the U.S. yet.
Will most babies be created using in vitro gametogenesis in 40 years?
Creation of artificial mouse embryos provokes bioethical handwringing about designer babies