In Reversal, Highly Developed Nations See Rise in Fertility

August 12th, 2009 admin

For decades, the rate at which women were having babies in many of the world’s most highly developed countries slowly declined. Now, however, new research has produced the first glimmer of hope that economic prosperity may not be linked to an…


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