America has entered a pandemic-inspired baby bust.
Guess not even locking couples up and obliterating their social calendars could convince more Americans to have babies.
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Guess not even locking couples up and obliterating their social calendars could convince more Americans to have babies.
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Notice a bunch of your friends seemed to have gotten pregnant since the start of the pandemic?
You might be tempted to call it a trend, but several states that keep track of births in near-real-time recorded significant drops in Dec. 2020 birthrates.
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You might be tempted to call it a trend, but several states that keep track of births in near-real-time recorded significant drops in Dec. 2020 birthrates.
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“This is a bad situation,” said Philip Cohen, a sociologist and demographer at the University of Maryland.
“The declines we're seeing now are… pretty substantial.”
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“The declines we're seeing now are… pretty substantial.”
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Not only have birth rates dropped, but Cohen's research also shows there have been noticeable drops in Google searches for pregnancy- and sex-related topics
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“People make long-term decisions when they have confidence about the future, and if there's anything that undermines confidence about the future, it's this massive pandemic,” he said
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The pandemic is compounding an existing problem in America, as birth rates were sinking to an all-time low, even before COVID-19 arrived.
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