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Infertility on the Menu

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Infertility on the Menu
The total fertility rate—the number of children that American women average over a lifetime—is now at an anemic 1.62, well below the 2.1 needed for replacement, writes Steven Mosher. Shutterstock/NDAB Creativity
Steven W. Mosher
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The collapse in U.S. birth rates is reaching dangerous proportions.

Steven W. Mosher is the president of the Population Research Institute and the author of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order.” A former National Science Foundation fellow, he studied human biology at Stanford University under famed geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza. He holds advanced degrees in Biological Oceanography, East Asian Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. One of America’s leading China watchers, he was selected in 1979 by the National Science Foundation to be the first American social scientist to do field research in China.