The Cost of Loving: falling birthrates, and the increased role of personal choice in procreation,Deborah Hyde,The Skeptic
A recent Office for National Statistics (ONS) publication formalises and quantifies what are, to most of us, a couple of readily observable facts. The first is that women are now having fewer children. In England and Wales, those born in 1975 had on average 1.92 children, while their mothers’ generation (assumed to be born in …