In the last of a three-part series, reporter Sarah Tory talks to Cynthia Ayala about how falling birthrates reflect women’s increasing autonomy over their bodies and their lives.

In the second installment of a series about falling birth rates, Amelia Dotzenrod talks about why she waited until her mid-thirties to have a child.

Across the U.S., women are having fewer babies. In the first of a three-part series about falling birth rates, Evelyn Perry talks about her decision not to have kids.