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From KQED. From KQED. From KQED, it's being called a baby bust, a birth dearth.

It's the expectation that the pandemic will intensify the U.S.'s already declining birth rate.

California is reporting a 10% decline in births in 2020 compared to the year before.

We'll look at how the pandemic is driving down birth rates and why researchers are worried about it.

And we want to hear from you.

Has the pandemic affected your family planning decisions?

Tell us why after this news. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. For some, the global pandemic inspired them to try for a child, feeling that life was short and precious.

But more often than expected, people chose the other route, delaying becoming parents or deciding to remain child-free for good.

Researchers say U.S. births declined by nearly 4% in 2020. Some predict it will drop by up to 8% in 2021, which translates to some 300,000 fewer babies than would otherwise be expected. We look at what's driving this and why it matters in this hour of forum. Joining me, Eliana Docterman, staff writer for Time, who wrote an October piece titled, Women Are Deciding Not to Have Babies because of the pandemic. That's bad for all of us.

And Dr. Casey Buckles, an associate professor of economics and concurrent professor of gender studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Thanks to both of you for joining us.

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