People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy [View all]

(NPR) Ashley and Nick Evancho say raising their 3-year-old, Sophia, is one of the most joyous things they've ever done. "Watching my daughter run around in the yard is otherworldly for me," Ashley said on a recent afternoon in their home in Grand Island, a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y.

But the Evanchos also made a decision that's increasingly common for families in the U.S. and around the world: One is enough.

"I don't need another one. I don't want another one. I love having only one child," said Ashley Evancho, who works as a financial planner.

Her husband, Nick, an Episcopal priest, agreed that big families make less sense in today's economy. "It really stacks the chips economically against you," he said.

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5576355/population-babies-capitalism