The mystery isn’t why the birth rate is falling – it’s why anyone has kids at all – New Statesman

The mystery isn’t why the birth rate is falling – it’s why anyone has kids at all

Since 2007 the country has rolled from crisis to crisis. Anyone under 35 has never known the good times.

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