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... His administration passed a number of policies at the start of 2025 aimed at boosting birth rates, including an executive order expanding access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and a Department of Transportation directive to give precedence to "communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average."

However, after a recent report highlighted that financial and other kinds of uncertainty are continuing to hinder birth rates in America, experts have weighed in on what more the administration should be doing about the population crisis. ...

As more women are choosing to focus on their careers, it means they are not having children because of what some describe is a "mismatch between the desires of men and women""the idea that women tend to make compromises in their working lives to have children instead of men, and those who are more career-focused may opt to delay having children, potentially until it's too late. ...