Expectations and rationale for the decreasing U.S. birth rate are discussed in the Deseret News article “Why isn’t America having a baby boom right now?” Demographic Intelligence president, Samuel Sturgeon, is quoted as saying births will have dropped by 2.8 percent by the end of this year to 3.84 million. The predicted fertility rate of 1.77 children per woman would be the lowest in 38 years and be well below the “replacement rate” of 2.01 children per woman. Read the full article here.