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to the world. These are the stories we'll discuss, and we will also address some of your questions.

I'm your host Sean McDowell. I'm your co-host Scott Ray.

This is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update brought you by Talbot School Theology,

Biola University.

Scott, this first story, just as soon as I think we hit a low with fertility, it keeps going

down and concerns me more and more.

This is in the New York Times and in the Wall Street Journal.

Now, the fertility rate in U.S. has been dropping since 2007.

But apparently, this article in New York Times says it dropped from one year over to 2025,

from births per thousand women, from 53.8 to 53.1.

Now, they say it's a mystery in this article, and we'll come back to whether that's not the case or not, but they point a few things out. They say there are some clues in the age

breakdown. The fertility rate for teens drop by 7%. So that is down. Some demographers say the

precipitous drop of births among teens and women in their early 20 show that women have more

control over their fertility.

So number one, teens are having less.

And then second, they suggest that women have more control.

And what's really interesting about the study that reason I wanted to cover it,

they said the numbers released on Thursday this week were consistent with the idea

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