Baby Bust: US births continue their decline

[Del Tachi]

If this slump in fertility is generational (i.e., late X'er/Millennial families choosing to delay marriage/childbirth) couldn't this all sort itself out with higher birthrates among the 35-45 age cohort sometime in the near future?  Basically, the median age at first-marriage has been moving later faster than older couples are popping out kids?     

[Del Tachi]

Despite the decline in birthrates for some time now, there's been a steady increase in the number of foster care children

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/afcarsreport25.pdf

And even with a dropping abortion rate. This is really weird. Pregnancies, abortions, and births are falling and somehow this is happening.

Opioid crisis.  Meth-addicts don't make good parents.