Will the government’s maternity review let families down again?
The Department of Health has announced the 14 hospital trusts it will investigate
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Born in chains
Prisons abandon women to give birth alone – at great risk to their lives, and those of their babies.
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You can’t fix this decline without fixing childcare or housing.
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The birth trauma taboo
Theo Clarke’s book paints a damning picture of Britain’s failing maternity services. Change cannot come soon enough.
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The disturbing rise of tech-bro pronatalism
A growing group of Silicon Valley figures are agitating for people to have more children – as a solution to…
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Is there a progressive argument for pro-natalism?
The demographer Paul Morland on why we should have more children.
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The Green Party’s irresponsible childbirth “policy”
A 2022 report concluded that mothers and babies are harmed – not helped – by a lower incidence of Caesarean…
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The crisis on England’s maternity wards is worse than I imagined
A new parliamentary report reveals that thousands of women across the country suffer through traumatic births.
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Taxing the childless would be an insult, not a solution
A truly “pro-natal” society would ensure that having a child doesn’t mean career suicide and financial devastation.
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The question is not 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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Why has it taken tragedy to stop the NHS pushing for “natural” births?
During my three days in labour I asked for a c-section countless times. I felt forgotten about, in danger and…
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Why has the right gone natalist?
There’s something disconcerting about the conservative penchant for telling women they need to breed.
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The death of a baby born in a prison cell exposes England’s warped justice system
A pregnant inmate of HMP Bronzefield was “failed”, a report finds. For women in prisons, it is a grimly familiar…
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The baby bust: How a declining birth rate will reshape the world
We are now facing a demographic winter that will transform the way we live.
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