Smartphones arrived just before the US fertility rate plunged. One study says it’s a direct cause

The US fertility rate has been trending down for decades, leaving researchers and policymakers searching for causes that may ...
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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...