Tag: Fertility

Why would a 70-year-old widower and his 60-something fiancée need fertility awareness in their marriage prep?

The novelist PD James began one book with a chilling image of a world without children. Now it seems it is up to the church to prevent it becoming reality, writes George Weigel.

According to a new report from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, the US national fertility rate hit a record low in 2024—just 53.8 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44.

Katy Faust, a pro-child American activist, recently spoke in Sydney, advocating for policies that prioritise children's well-being. Her rapid-fire presentation highlighted issues from IVF to national debt through a child-centric lens.

Later this year, population experts and pronatalists will meet in Texas to explore practical solutions to declining worldwide fertility. It’s one of several signs that attitudes to fertility rates are shifting.

Since the publication of Humanae Vitae in 1968, fertility awareness has come a long way. Our nature-interested age is primed to make natural fertility normal again, write Francine and Byron Pirola.

Our culture warns kids about unplanned pregnancies, but are we honest about the risk of delaying fertility? While a couple’s decisions and circumstances should be respected, having kids isn’t as simple as we wish, write Francine and Byron Pirola.

When you try to stuff the child gap with mass migration, you find yourself with thousands of adults appearing literally overnight. They need houses, schools, jobs, and shops right now. They can’t wait 18 years for them. No wonder everyone is concerned about the falling population.

Inspiring legacy of John and Evelyn Billings; a married couple, both doctors, set out to study the signs of fertility. What they discovered changed...

When Eliza Seggara saw first hand the struggles her sister Mary-Jane had had with having a baby over ten years ago, she was left...

Well over half a century after it was written, St Pope Paul VI’s landmark encyclical continues shaping family life When Ivica and Maria Kovac married...

The new census data will provide better insight into why our fertility rate is in freefall, said the lead scientist of a longitudinal study...