The UK is facing a population crisis with birth rates at an all-time low.
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The number of births in the US is down 2% – to what the CDC calls ‘the lowest number of births in 32 years.’ This drop brings the US more in line with its peers.
Did you ever consider that human beings might have a breeding season? Birth seasonality exists – and has interesting implications for childhood disease outbreaks.
Do Muslim couples in Australia have ‘on average 4.5 children’ while other couples have ‘1.5 children’? Could Australia have a ‘Muslim majority’ in ‘a couple’ of generations? Let’s check the evidence.
Women will now be better informed when it comes to deciding whether it’s worth undergoing another round of IVF.
Often emphasised in discussions about children’s best interests is the idea that certain ways of having and raising children are “natural”. For example, this word appears frequently in reference to how…
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor in psychology, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Flinders University
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
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Senior Lecturer in Statistics, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Sociology and China Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Demography, University of Ibadan
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Southampton
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Sociology; Director, Institute for Population Research, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor of Demography, University of Dar es Salaam
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Professor of population and development studies, University of Kinshasa
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Senior Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in East Asian Business, SOAS, University of London
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Reader in Social Policy, University of Bath
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Associate professor, University of Ibadan