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Russia President Vladimir Putin revived the Mother Heroine award to honor women with 10 or more children at a time of fertility crisis that’s near-global. The impact of falling birthrates includes economic stagnation, loss of entrepreneurs, challenges for schools and employers, social safety net concerns and more. Read more about national medal for mothers. ....
Talk about pregnancy and fertility often centers on how old a woman is when she begins having children and how many she intends to have. There’s less discussion on the other end of the female reproductive cycle: the age at which a woman has her last child. Researchers at Bowling Green State University in Ohio decided to take a close look at that, given the falling fertility rate in the United States and much of the rest of the world, which has ramifications beyond an immediate household. The beginning and the ending of having children are tied together in ways that shape the future economy, a woman’s ability to have the number of children she wants, the coming workforce and even whether neighborhoods build or shutters schools. Questions of maturity and resources not all financial come into play. And this particular landscape has been changing for many years. ....
Deseret News Lee-Rubio Child Tax Credit change takes aim at penalties for families Their new proposal would increase the credit to $3,500 a year for school-age children and $4,500 for younger children. Share this story Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, left, listens as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 4, 2015. Lee and Rubio hope to expand the child tax credit again, three years after they fought to double the credit to $2,000 and make more of it refundable to reach more families in need. J. Scott Applewhite. Associated Press U.S. Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., hope to expand the child tax credit again, three years after they fought to double the credit to $2,000 and make more of it refundable to reach more families in need. ....