Centre for Population ChangeJun 13, 2025

πŸ”– 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

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

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

BabyYumYumApr 4, 2025
#BabyYumYum #BYY #Parenting #MomLife #DadLife #HavingChildren #ILovemykid #RealParenting #Parenthood
Centre for Population ChangeMar 26, 2024
πŸ“»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) πŸ‘‡
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001xltm
You and Yours - Car club closures, β€˜Not my debt!’ and celebrity brands - BBC Sounds

Insurance prices are pushing community car clubs to the brink.

BBC
Mother Of The SonMay 25, 2023
Every #mother is a #good and #bad mother.
At the same time.
Always.
#Confusion is the essence of #motherhood.
#parenting #parenthood #havingChildren
Alex BryantNov 19, 2022

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