Parenthood is not just expensive — it is an open-ended commitment with unbounded downside risk. In Singapore, that risk is ...

It would require society to shoulder the cost of raising Singaporean children.  Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Every G7 nation's fertility rate dropped below replacement levels in the 1970s. Fifty years later, the pension bill is coming due, and organizations are not ready.

Kathy Hochul’s subtlety was too much for X. The Democratic governor at POLITICO’s New York Agenda: Albany Summit last week said she wanted pro-tax-hike millionaires to help lure back wealthy New ...

MOSCOW — Russia will refer women who do not want to have children to psychologists under new health guidelines designed to address a systemic demographic crisis. Russia’s dwindling birth rate has been ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

What has the world's population climbed to now? We remember reading that it recently surpassed 8 billion souls. After we Googled, it turns out the number of people on the planet is up to 8.2 billion ...

Picture yourself dragging in your fishing net after a day at sea, only to catch a glimpse of a strange creature staring back ...

Livestock farmers are being advised to vaccinate their animals against bluetongue, as vet and industry leaders warn the coming “season” could be the worst ...

The death of Paul Ehrlich, the American academic and alarmist, was a reminder of a time when gloom was all the rage, as it is ...

The world is going to hell in a handbasket. And we’re all basket-weaving. Our nation is in midst of its worst constitutional ...

The U.S. Postal Service will run out of cash within a year unless Congress lifts a decades-old cap and allows the agency to borrow more money, the new postmaster general warned in an interview. ‘Way ...