America’s falling birth rate is no longer a short-term dip. It has become a structural trend. Recent data show the U.S. fertility rate at about 1.6 births per woman, down from above 2.1 only a few decades ago.Pew Research Center+1 Demographers treat 2.1 births per woman as the replacement level needed to roughly stabilise a population, assuming no net migration.OECD The U.S. sits well below that threshold. Some projections warn that as many as one in four young adults may never have children at all. This quiet shift is already reshaping the country’s economic, social, and political future. Why America’s … Continue reading America’s Falling Birth Rate Is Now Structural