The average woman will have 1.7 children in her lifetime according to a National Center for Health Statistics' analysis of 2019 fertilit...

Foster care may be the best solution for a bad situation, but children who experience foster care face a lifetime of struggle, according to ...

The final numbers are in. There were only 3,791,712 births in 2018, according to the National Center for Health Statistics report,  Births F...

Among women of childbearing age in the United States, more are childless than ever before. The percentage of women aged 15 to 44 who have no...

The average woman in the United States will have 1.8 children in her lifetime, according to the age-specific fertility rates of 2017. This c...

Since peaking in 2007, the annual number of births in the United States has fallen 10.7 percent. This number has significance: it is equal t...

The nation's fertility rate hit a new low in the first quarter of 2018, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The fert...

"The most pressing current issue for the Social Security Trustees is how to think about the sharp decline in the total fertility rate,...

Among women aged 18 to 44, those in rural areas have had more children than their urban counterparts, according to the National Center for H...

American women will have an average of 1.84 children in their lifetime, an estimate based on birth rates by age in 2015. This is well below ...