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Is the ‘motherhood penalty’ really behind the UK’s falling birth rate?

9 August 2024

3:02 AM

9 August 2024

3:02 AM

Britain is so beset with immediate problems that major issues, ones which could drastically alter our society and the way we live, are being sidelined. One of these is our plummeting birth rate.

The number of deaths in England and Wales could this year exceed the number of births. Our total fertility rate, at 1.49

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