📉 Interviewed about the effects of falling #birthrates on local businesses, CPC member Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris said attitudes towards #havingchildren are shifting among #youngergenerations:

"About 15% of the #GenZ cohort say that they definitely don't want to have #children, and that's quite different from previous generations and previous studies that have been done," she said. "Another 30% say that they probably don't or are uncertain about having #kids." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4pzweqdgpo

Falling birth rates contribute to Romsey business closing

The owners of child-focused businesses say falling birth rates are impacting their future viability.

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“Arguably, childbearing has become more of a privilege," says CPC-CG member Ann Berrington in a new article in The Telegraph, with CG member Charlie McCurdy agreeing that for many young people, even if they want children, "they feel like they can't afford them."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/05/06/having-a-big-family-is-now-the-preserve-of-the-rich/

#demography #fertility #childless #childfree #family #kids #fertilitydecline #youngpeople #millennials #costofliving #havingchildren

🔖 NEW findings from the ESRC-funded FertilityTrends project

The first study to examine how having children in Britain has changed over 3 decades, by child order (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.), and to compare these changes between England & Wales and Scotland

➡️Article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2025.2491354

#fertility #birthorder #demography #population #populationstudies #socialscience #family #havingchildren #birthrates

📻Hear Bernice Kuang on BBC Radio 4 You and Yours programme, providing #fertility and #family research input to a discussion on how worries about high costs of #raisingchildren are a barrier to people #havingchildren or extending their #families (from 24:13) 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001xltm
You and Yours - Car club closures, ‘Not my debt!’ and celebrity brands - BBC Sounds

Insurance prices are pushing community car clubs to the brink.

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Every #mother is a #good and #bad mother.
At the same time.
Always.
#Confusion is the essence of #motherhood.
#parenting #parenthood #havingChildren

Current before-bed read when I don't just collapse into sleep, Christine Overall's "Why Have Children?" (#MITP 2012). I don't always agree with Overall in her other work, but I'm interested to see how she works through the questions here--the question of bringing new creatures into the world really weighs on me some days, looking forward to #feminist discussion of the putative reasons in favour.

#natalism #antinatalism #HavingChildren #philosophy