The U.S. fertility rate — the average number of children each woman gives birth to — fell 22% between 1990 and 2023, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ...

A doctor in Jackson, Miss., uses a handheld Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure a fetus's heartbeat in December 2021. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP) Americans aren’t having enough babies. Ironically, ...