More than half of child-free Americans under 50 who don't think they'll ever have kids say they just don't want them

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Fifty-seven percent of Americans under the age of 50 without kids said the main reason they won't have any is because they just don't want to.

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Asia's governments think people not having sex or dating may be tanking their birth rates. That's not the full picture.

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Hospital staff attending to new born babies in the nursery ward of the Hospital in Misato city, Saitama prefecture on February 1, 2014.
Cities like Tokyo and Seoul have turned to radical ideas like launching a dating app and giving people money to reverse their vasectomies in order to bolster their declining birth rates.

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Here's why Americans having fewer kids won't doom the economy

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The implosion of the 'typical American family'

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The typical American family — a happily married mother and father with two children who live under one roof — has slowly deteriorated over the last 50 years.

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China is facing a brutal reality as it desperately tries to fix its population decline problem

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A medical worker takes care of newborns at Dongfang Hospital in Lianyungang, China, on January 1, 2024.

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Chinese people are debating a superstition that says 2024 is the 'Year of the Widow.' Beijing is starting to pay attention.

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Newly-wed couples attend traditional Chinese-style group wedding ceremony at Jinyang Lake Park on September 12, 2023 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province of China.
Newly-wed couples attend traditional Chinese-style group wedding ceremony at Jinyang Lake Park on September 12, 2023 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province of China.

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Chinese women are fed up with Xi Jinping's attempts to make them have more and more kids

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SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 24: A woman crosses a pedestrian crossing in wet weather in the Shanghai's financial district (Lujiazui) on February 24, 2018 in Shanghai, China.
SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 24: A woman crosses a pedestrian crossing in wet weather in the Shanghai's financial district (Lujiazui) on February 24, 2018 in Shanghai, China.

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Elon Musk tells Italians to have more children during an appearance at a political conference in Rome: 'Make more Italians'

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Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk reacts, as he attends political festival Atreju organised by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) right-wing party, in Rome, Italy, December 16, 2023.
Elon Musk attended Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy right-wing party in Rome on Saturday.

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Elon Musk's dad, 77, says he'd have more kids — but only if he could find a woman under 35

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Errol Musk, the father of Elon Musk, told Insider he'd be open to having more children.

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