SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — New analysis projects the population to decline as younger adults plan to have less children.
“I’ll be known as the fertilization president,” said President Donald Trump at a Women’s History Month event back in March.
The Trump administration has proposed different incentives to improve recent low birth rates like reducing the cost for in vitro fertilization and a $5K ‘baby bonus‘ to encourage Americans to have more children. But a new analysis by Pew Research Center (PRC) shows that women and men in their 20’s and 30’s are planning to have fewer children.
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This has been an ongoing decline for the past decade, and although intentions do not always predict the future, the analysis shows that by the time adult women reach the end of their fertility years, they often have fewer children than what they originally intended…