#birthrate — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: A new paper links the 2007 #iPhone launch to declining #US birth rates, finding 4.5-8% drops among 15-19 year olds in areas with early iPhone access.

The researchers suggest #smartphones may reduce in-person socializing while increasing access to #porn and birth control #information. Skeptics note that teen birth rates were already falling since the #1990s.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/smartphones-might-be-playing-a-role-in-the-united-states-declining-birth-rate-new-research-suggests-180989129/

#birthrate #demographics #teens #technology #research #economics #middlebury #fertility #screentime #science #nber #statistics

If govt policymakers want their citizens to have more kids

Then:

Accessible #Healthcare
Secure #Housing
#Daycare
#ParentalLeave (both parents)
Sane #workCulture
Quality #Education
Etc

In the #USA #MAGA's desire for more kids seems to have found its policy in "make them poor uneducated and desperate and get rid of #sexEd #abortion #contraception and #womensRights"

I suppose they have a point because neglected unloved kids are future MAGA

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/10/money-not-infertility-un-report-says-why-birth-rates-are-plummeting

#Infertility #birthRate

Falling birthrates and what to do about them.

Scientific consensus holds that global birthrates are plummeting but disagree on whether they can stabilise.

In a series of detailed graphics, NZZ visualises the results of two major studies on birthrate trends around the world.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250530-falling-birthrates-and-what-to-do-about-them?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Birthrate #Demographics #Fertility #Births #Migration #Science