Close your eyes for a moment and think back to those nights when someone sang you to sleep. " These songs felt safe, ...

Create a stunning crochet blanket with the Precious Posies pattern. This easy yet unique design adds beautiful texture and charm, perfect for cozy home décor or a thoughtful handmade gift.

Women may hold up half the sky, as Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong once famously declared, but these days they must do so while also holding a baby — or preferably three — in their arms at ...

*The CDC has released new data showing a continued drop in birth rates among Black women in the U.S. According to provisional data, the Black birth rate declined by 4% in 2024 alone. That puts it in ...

China's birth rate has dropped to its lowest level since official records began in 1949—Newsweek has broken down how this compares with other parts of the globe. Last year, China recorded 7.92 million ...

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China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a demographic challenge that could drag on the world’s second-largest economy for ...

GRIMES, Iowa (KCCI) - A Des Moines family got a very special delivery on Monday, KCCI reports. Amethyst Blumberg ended her shift at FedEx around 8 a.m. when she suddenly went into labor in the ...

BANGKOK (AP) — How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ending China's longtime one-child policy, the country's ...

All right. This is a mind-blowing story about numbers - population numbers. China still has the world's largest population after India, but it saw its birth rate last year drop to the lowest level in ...

China's birthrate fell to a record low last year, with the number of births per 1,000 people dropping to 5.6. About 7.9 million babies were born last year, significantly fewer than 9.5 million the ...

China’s population fell for a fourth straight year and its birthrate tumbled as policymakers failed to slow a demographic crisis. By Alexandra Stevenson Declaring childbirth a patriotic act. Nagging ...