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In this April 14, 2014 photo, preschool teacher Arene Galirza, left, a 4-year-old student color a rabbit-shaped paper cutout at Community Day Preschool of Garden Grove, in Garden Grove, Calif. According to the school's executive director Sue Puisis, the enrollment at the preschool has dropped by more than 50 percent since 2008. The financial crisis that followed the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008 sent birth rates tumbling around the world as couples found themselves too short of money or too fearful about their finances to have children. Six years later, birth rates haven't bounced back. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Fear of economic blow as births drop around world

By BERNARD CONDON - Associated Press

In this April 14, 2014 photo, preschool teacher Arene Galirza, left, a 4-year-old student color a rabbit-shaped paper cutout at Community Day Preschool of Garden Grove, in Garden Grove, Calif. According to the school's executive director Sue Puisis, the enrollment at the preschool has dropped by more than 50 percent since 2008. The financial crisis that followed the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008 sent birth rates tumbling around the world as couples found themselves too short of money or too fearful about their finances to have children. Six years later, birth rates haven't bounced back. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Fear of economic blow as births drop around world

By BERNARD CONDON - Associated Press