Declining U.S. fertility rates, and a “romantic reckoning”
New research shows a sharp drop in the number of babies born in the U.S. last year. An analysis reported in the New York Times found an estimated 3.84 million babies were born nationwide in 2017. That’s down more than 100,000 from the year before. The number of people 18 to 30 who say they haven’t had sex in the…