Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:11:07 -0800

Singapore's Total Fertility Rate (TFR) picked up slightly last year to 1.20, up from a historic low of 1.15 in 2010. The Prime Minister announced the figure on Saturday in his Chinese New Year messag .....

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:21:46 -0800

In the past half-century, the fertility rate for a typical Brazilian woman has tumbled from six children to fewer than two. There are several factors at work, and one of them appears to be the glamorous female characters in hugely popular soap operas, who have few, if any, children.

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:34:16 -0800

Say you bought a sprawling ranch-style house in 2007, with a guest room just begging to be turned into a nursery. If you lived in Las Vegas, that house today would probably be worth barely a third of what you paid. If you bought in Phoenix or Miami or Detroit, it would be worth about half your purchase price. In every case you’d most likely be underwater on your mortgage, with no hope of tapping ...