fertility

Pope Francis had strong words for couples who choose not to have children, saying Tuesday that their self-imposed barrenness was at the root of the demographic winter plaguing the West.

A survey has revealed that 44 per cent of British women aged 18 to 24 said they would consider freezing their eggs in the future, while a quarter of those in that age group also admit to being concerned about their fertility.

An academic has hailed mass migration and the coming artificial intelligence revolution as reasons not to fear plummeting fertility rates in Western countries, wherein most it has long stood below replacement rate. 

Since 2013, there has been a 70 per cent increase in Swedish men seeking voluntary vasectomies, according to a report.

The United States fertility rate is now at an all-time low in the country’s history, dropping by half of what the fertility rate was in the 1950s.

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Hungary’s pro-family culture has resulted in a rising fertility rate for married women which is “winding back the clock” on demographic decline — a trend once deemed irreversible in Europe and used by globalists to justify mass migration from the third world.

Despite more deaths than births taking place in Europe last year, the continent’s population swelled by more than a million in 2017 thanks to immigration.

China’s state-run media was keenly interested in a Monday column from Bloomberg News report that Beijing is thinking about scrapping its 40-year-old family planning policy and allowing Chinese citizens to have as many children as they want.

The U.S. birthrate hit a historic low in 2017, well below replacement levels, a phenomenon that Vox is touting as “a sign of progress.”

The Italian Statistics Bureau (ISTAT) has released demographic forecasts for the country predicting a steadily declining population due to a birthrate well below replacement levels.

The Micro-11 mission will test the performance of sperm in microgravity aboard the International Space Station for the first time.

Kelli Rowlette has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Gerald Mortimer and his associates for allegedly secretly using his own sperm to father her.

The sperm count in men living in developed countries has fallen by a remarkable 50 percent over the past 40 years, according to a new medical study.

In his homily at Tuesday morning Mass, Pope Francis reflected on the blessing of fertility and the dangers of going down the path of self-imposed barrenness as some modern nations have done.

The birthrate in the U.S. is expected to fall to a 30-year low of 1.77 children per woman in 2017, well below the replacement value of roughly 2.1.

Nearly half of young Japenese people have had no sexual experiences by the time they are 30, according to a report by Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.

With the election of Emmanuel Macron to the presidency of France over the weekend, the leaders of Europe’s top four economies — Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy — have zero children between them, a feat perhaps never before matched in European history.

A new home test kit that incorporates a smartphone attachment and app allows men to test their fertility, measuring sperm count, concentration, and movement.

Italy continues to suffer from a steadily declining birthrate, especially among native Italians, with live births falling by nearly 20,000 in 2015.

From the UK Telegraph comes word of a study that demonstrates men who keep their cell phones in their pockets, close to their testicles, risk “cooking” their sperm, possibly making it difficult for them to have children.