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CNA Staff, Jun 20, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Advocates and policymakers have for years argued that extending family benefits — such as paid leave, job guarantees, and cash payouts for new babies — could help reverse the… […]
People cast their ballot in a polling station on June 6, 2024, in The Hague, Netherlands. Voters in 27 European Union countries go to the polls over the next four days to elect members of the European Parliament. / Credit: Pierre Crom/Getty Imag… […]
Fertility rose at the end of the Depression and the end of World War II with the baby boom, to more than 3.5 births for every woman by 1960 — then plummeted immediately thereafter. / Credit: Glenn|Wikimedia|CC BY-SA 2.0
Washington D.C., May 2, … […]
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CNA Staff, Nov 10, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).
The U.S. population will peak later this century before experiencing a decline by 2100, the U.S. Census Bureau said this week, with low fertility numbers partly explaining th… […]
Orphaned children in India. / Lynne Dobson/Miracle Foundation.
Thiruvananthapuram, India, Aug 6, 2021 / 16:32 pm (CNA).
A Catholic diocese in India has announced that it will offer cash incentives to families who were married from the year 2000 … […]
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Rome Newsroom, Jun 18, 2021 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
In light of a report that China’s rapidly aging population has caused Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials to consider… […]
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Beijing, China, May 31, 2021 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The Chinese government announced Monday that couples can have up to three children amid a sharp fall in the country’s birth rate. The May 31 announcement, described as a m… […]
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