America’s media used to tell a story about the baby bust, that it wasn’t really a baby bust, but a reshaping of the American family in the image of the highly educated urban liberal. The latest data undermine that story.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is, for some reason, the official baby counter in the United States — maybe part of our problem is that we consider pregnancy to be a disease. On March 18, the CDC finalized its count of babies born in the U.S. in 2023: 3,596,017.
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