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  1. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

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

  2. 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

    aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/10/m

    #Infertility #birthRate

  3. 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.

    mediafaro.org/article/20250530

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