# Is There Any Practical Way to Increase the Birthrate? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 6, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-practical-way-to-increase-the-birthrate/1012655 "2025-01-06T20:41:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1530
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-practical-way-to-increase-the-birthrate/1012655/1530 "2026-06-12T17:52:39Z")
Reviving this long running thread to cite something I posted in another thread that in turn cites a post by somebody else in a third thread … > [@Leave the birthrate alone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-birthrate-alone/1029286/279): > > Trying to get back to birthrates … Interesting cite over here: My summary of the article cited in that post: A study found that the advent of smartphones in 2007 just cratered teen and barely-20 pregnancies in the USA. While having much smaller effects in the older cohorts. Now, 20 years later, the effects remain strong in the now-young cohort but somewhat diminished in the then-young, now late child-rearing age cohort. Meta-point: Teen pregnancies are were, and have always been, a meaningf… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-practical-way-to-increase-the-birthrate/1012655)._