Musk says doing 'best' to boost birth rate after giving birth to twins last November
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Musk says doing 'best' to boost birth rate after giving birth to twins last November
Elon Musk said on Thursday that he was helping to cope with the falling birth rate after it was reported that he had twins with an executive at a company last year. "We are doing our best to help with the low population crisis." The comments came a day after online outlet Insider reported that Musk had twins with Canadian Shivon Zillis, 36, an executive at Musk's brain-transplant maker Neuralink.
The insider said he has also worked at other Musk companies, including OpenAI and electric car maker Tesla. In April, Zillis and Musk filed a petition in a Texas court asking children to "keep their father's last name and their mother's last name as part of their middle name," the insider reported by publication. Referring to the court documents received. The petition was granted in May, the site said.
Insider says the babies, who were born in November, came a few weeks before Musk, 51, and was his second child via musical artist Grimes' surrogate. They welcomed a baby girl named Exa Dark Sideril Musk — though parents would mostly call her Y. In total, the head of Tesla and SpaceX gave birth to 10 children, one of whom died soon after birth.
In May, Musk tweeted a graphic from the Wall Street Journal showing that the average number of children an American woman will have in her lifetime fell from 3.5 in 1960 to a little over 1.5 in 2021. He said it was below the level of 2.1. Which is necessary for a generation to transform itself. "The USA birth rate has been below the minimum sustainable level for ~50 years," Musk wrote alongside.