Birth rates decreased markedly around the time the iPhone and high-speed internet were rolled out; two new studies say this is the moment we stopped having children and started scrolling instead. Lydia Spencer-Elliott speaks to a fertility expert about whether our devices are really to blame

The research notes that iPhones reduce socializing, provide more access to information about contraception, and more access to pornography.

As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new US studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit -- the smartphone.

WASHINGTON — As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new US studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit -- the smartphone.

As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new US studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit the smartphone.

New US research suggests smartphones may be a significant, overlooked factor in declining birth rates, finding correlations between early iPhone access and reduced fertility among…

Researchers and policymakers have been scrambling to pinpoint why exactly birth rates are falling in the U.S. and around the world.

Birth rates are falling as phone use increases...and experts say the two are linked, with many of us guilty of knowing our devices more intimately than we know our partners.

New research links the rise of the iPhone and smartphones to falling birth rates worldwide, suggesting digital life may be reshaping sex, fertility and family plans.

New research reveals smartphones may contribute to declining birth rates, reshaping relationships and social behaviors alongside financial pressures and evolving societal norms.

It might really be the phones. Well, at least a little bit.

Economists find signs of a ‘large and causal relationship between iPhones and fertility' in AT&T exclusivity-era data

Investigación se realizó en Estados Unidos y fue publicada este mes por NBER.

WASHINGTON, June 10 — As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new US studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit — the...

The iPhone was introduced in 2007, the same year the U.S. birth rate started to slide. The issues could be linked, a new analysis finds.

Birth rates decreased markedly around the time the iPhone and high-speed internet were rolled out; two new studies say this is the moment we stopped having children and started…

A recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper noted the link between iPhone sales and declining births could be a result of more time on devices, and less time connecting.