Today’s Solutions: December 20, 2025

Want to boost birthrates? Rese

Want to boost birthrates? Research says men need to do their part at home 

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM According to certain political movements, the solution to falling fertility rates sounds simple: women should leave the workforce and start producing more babies. But Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin suggests the opposite may be true. Her latest Read More...

Child development

Paid parental leave improves infants' brain development

The months after giving birth are significant for mothers, not just for the physical and emotional recovery from labor, but for the time to bond with the new child and to adjust to the major life change. There is an ongoing discussion in the United States for the implementation of national paid Read More...