Falling fertility rates will hurt the economy. But a new baby boom is not the answer
Australia’s fertility rates have been falling fast and are now at rock bottom. The economic consequences will be far-reaching.
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Why fertility benefits are quickly becoming a 'must have' benefit
Workers want benefits that have a real and substantial impact on their health and wellbeing, and family planning concerns ...
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More Twins Are Being Born Even as Birth Rates Are Falling. Here's Why.
Twins occur when two separate eggs are fertilized at the same time, or when a fertilized eggs splits into two. Multiple ...
Need to boost population? Encourage dads to step up at home: Research finds link between fertility rates, gender roles
Fertility rates have fallen everywhere outside of sub-Saharan Africa. And they have fallen faster, and dropped even further, ...
The baby gap: why governments can’t pay their way to higher birth rates
Governments offer a catalogue of creative incentives for childbearing — yet fertility rates just keep dropping ...
Opinion
Colby Cosh: Will working from home help solve the fertility problem?
We’re relieving some of humanity from one more of its eternal burdens, and reaping unquestionable environmental and social gains in the bargain — even the people who do still have to commute don’t ...
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As birth rates drop in Colorado, one suburban hospital is seeing a baby boom
A hospital in Longmont, though, is seeing the opposite trend. They're in a baby boom. UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital has been seeing their numbers go up in recent years as more women come in to deliver.