WASHINGTON – The Justice Department directed prosecutors to investigate potential “birth tourism” schemes after the Supreme Court overturned President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict the ...

A decades-long decline in the U.S. fertility rate has confounded policymakers and economists alike, with experts pointing to possible causes ranging from the economic fallout of the Great Recession to ...

Younger siblings enjoy real advantages in life. They are born to parents who are generally wealthier and more experienced than when the firstborn arrived. Older siblings can serve as role models, ...

Birth rates have been declining worldwide since the peak of the post-Second World War baby boom. Birth rates have now reached below replacement in most of the world, including Australia. Put simply, ...

A woman gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom late Friday night, just hours after being discharged from a hospital, according to police and witnesses. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

Promoters of free birthing reject any type of medical intervention during pregnancy or delivery. The movement has been trending on social media, but critics warn it poses serious risks. By Dawn ...

Q: How real is birth tourism? A: The government doesn’t provide estimates of the extent of so-called birth tourism — pregnant women coming to the U.S. on tourism visas in order to obtain birthright ...

The teenage birth rate in the U.S. fell by 7% in 2025, continuing decades of decline, according to a report published Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics. "A 7% decline is really ...

It's usually more dangerous for women to give birth lying down, so why do they? It's all because of a Frenchman who decided it was more convenient – for men. For thousands of years, across the world, ...

A lawyer for the Trump administration during arguments at the Supreme Court leaned hard on his claim that so-called birth tourism is strong evidence that the U.S. policy of automatically giving ...

The term refers to pregnant women who travel to the United States to give birth so that their baby can have American citizenship. By Amy Qin When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Wednesday ...

President Donald Trump is pushing Congress to pass a sweeping election‑security bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote — raising new questions for Americans who don’t have easy access to ...