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.