PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 36) September 26
In This Issue: Marriage, once the cornerstone of adulthood, has become a “capstone” reserved for the financially secure. Census data show the median age for first marriage has climbed to 30 for men and 29 for women—up from 28 and 26 just 15 years ago. Between 2008 and 2023, first-marriage rates among 22–45-year-olds dropped 9%, with the steepest declines among the less educated and lower-income.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 35) September 19
In This Issue: Greece is shuttering 766 schools—over 5% of the nation’s total—after plunging fertility has left classrooms empty. Primary schools took the hardest hit, with closures rising from 247 in 2018–2019 to 324 this year, while kindergartens jumped from 312 to 358. In just seven years, the number of primary students has fallen by 111,000, a 19% drop.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 34) September 12
In This Issue: For the first time in 80 years, France recorded more deaths than births in 2024—651,000 deaths versus 650,000 births—marking a historic demographic turning point. Declining fertility since 2010 and rising deaths as baby boomers age have pushed the nation into natural population decline. Unlike Germany and Spain, which offset losses more through immigration, France has no clear strategy.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 33) September 5
In This Issue: A 19-year-old woman from Ontario died just 10 days after taking the abortion pill, after going into septic shock. Despite repeated ER visits for severe pain and bleeding, doctors failed to recognize her life-threatening infection until it was too late. Hospital staff begged to have the woman transferred to the ICU, but doctors refused. She died after going into multiorgan failure and multiple cardiac arrests.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 32) August 29
In This Issue: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a series of sweeping pro-abortion bills, further cementing the state as one of the most radical abortion havens in America. One new law ensures abortion pills remain legal in Illinois as long as they are approved by the World Health Organization—even if the FDA revokes U.S. approval. Another mandates that public colleges and universities distribute abortion pills on campus, encouraging young women to undergo chemical abortions alone in dorm rooms without physician oversight.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 31) August 22
In This Issue: Pew Research Center’s new analysis of U.N. data shows births to women under 25 are plummeting worldwide. In North America, they’ve fallen from 45% in 1950 to 23% today and are projected to drop to 12% by 2100. Europe will fall from 35% in 1950 to just 9%. Latin America and the Caribbean will decline from 39% today to 17%.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 30) August 15
In This Issue: Recently, The Daily Declaration released a commentary exposing the staggering double standard in public outrage, contrasting massive marches for causes abroad with the deafening silence over the 90,000 unborn babies killed in Australia each year. In Australia, mothers who abort late-term babies can receive more than $4,300 in government payments, with some cases costing taxpayers up to $23,000.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 29) August 8
In This Issue: Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an effort to block the defunding of Planned Parenthood. The suit claims this move would devastate state healthcare systems, even though Planned Parenthood has been closing centers and shifting to telehealth for years. At the same time, abortions have reached a record high of over 402,000—up 2.5% from the previous year—while taxpayer funding has soared to $792.2 million, a 13% increase.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 28) August 1
In This Issue: New data from the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the CDC, shows that while the number of U.S. births rose slightly in 2024 to 3.63 million, the overall fertility rate continued to fall—from 54.5 to 53.8 births per 1,000 women aged 15–44. Birth rates dropped across all younger age groups: teens (down 4%), women in their 20s (down 2–3%), and women in their early 30s (down 1%).
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 27) July 25
In This Issue: Global fertility continues to slide, with Latin America and the Caribbean—once known for large families—now seeing steep, unexpected drops. Births in the past decade have fallen sharply across the region: Uruguay down 34%, Argentina 32%, Costa Rica 27%, Mexico 24%, Chile and Cuba 21%, Colombia 13%, and Brazil 10%.