Killing The Mood: Smartphones Reduce Birth Rate, Studies Say

As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new US studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit -- the smartphone. "Is the iPhone Birth Control?" asked a paper published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research, delving into why US fertility rates have fallen by 22 percent since 2007. For a while, experts linked the decline to the recession that struck in 2008 when the global financial system...