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More than half of child-free Americans under 50 who don't think they'll ever have kids say they just don't want them

Fifty-seven percent of Americans under 50 and without kids said they just don't want to have any, a…

John Towfighi   


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Plummeting fertility rates are making Asian countries worry about running out of soldiers

Declining fertility rates in South Korea, Japan, and China are making the countries think hard abou…

Joshua Zitser   


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Asia's governments think people not having sex or dating may be tanking their birth rates. That's not the full picture.

One expert told BI that there is "very little, if hard any evidence at all" to show that pro-natali…

Kwan Wei Kevin Tan   


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Nearly all countries will struggle to maintain population levels by 2100, thanks to crashing birth rates: IHME

Over three-quarters of countries are expected to struggle to maintain their population sizes by 205…

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Millennials are raising pets instead of kids. It's not going well for the pets.

Birth rates are declining, and millennials own more pets than any other age group. But experts say …

Aimee Pearcy   


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China's retirement crisis is here, and Beijing will be forced to keep raising the retirement age, demographer says

People 60 years and older are expected to make up nearly half of China's population by 2050, accord…

Jennifer Sor   


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Understanding Elon’s 12: Has Musk switched allegiances from climate to the fertility crisis for good?

We might be a few months too late but we congratulate Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the birth of his 12th …

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China's birth rate has fallen so much that many hospitals are simply giving up on delivering babies

China has been stepping up measures to encourage marriage and parenthood.

Huileng Tan   


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China's city dwellers will soon have more pets than toddlers, and there's 1 way investors can cash in on the trend, Goldman Sachs says

China will have more than 70 million urban pets and less than 40 million children under the age of …

Kwan Wei Kevin Tan,Aditi Bhar…   


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Fertility expert Leslie Schrock explains why embryonic personhood will never work in practice

Conservatives are in a tizzy over discarded embryos in IVF. But just like our natural human biology…

Blake Dodge   


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China has a birth-rate problem. It's also the 2nd-least affordable country in the world to raise a child, says a Beijing think tank.

China is one of the most unaffordable places in the world to raise a child, ranking higher than the…

Matthew Loh   


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Meet the last 20-something millennials: They're twice as wealthy as their geriatric peers were and are carving creative paths to homeownership

Millennials are saying goodbye to their 20s with twice as much wealth as their Great Recession-blig…

Hillary Hoffower   


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Babies are a status symbol in today's economy: It's the 'haves and have-nots' of who can afford children

A sociologist explains how today's expensive cost of living and unaffordable childcare have put a b…

Hillary Hoffower   


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The world faces a low-fertility future that will 'completely reconfigure' the global economy

Elon Musk has voiced concern about what he regards as impending "population collapse."

Rebecca Rommen