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UK: Majority of Women Over 30 are Childless for First Time in Recorded History

 
 
 
 
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Women in England and Wales are waiting longer until they have children, with half not having had any by the time they reach 30.

Statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday show 50.1% of women born in 1990 didn’t have any children by the time they turned 30.

This group is the first where half have not had a baby by that age since records began in 1920.

By comparison, 57% of women born in 1970 had become a mum by 30, and 76% of those born in 1950 had.

Going back even further, 86% of women born in 1941 had at least one child by the time they reached their 30th birthday.

The ONS report also found that 18% of women aged 45 in 2020 – who were said to be at ‘the end of their childbearing years’ – never had children.

This proportion has stayed fairly consistent since the late 1950s, suggesting women are delaying having children rather than not having any at all, the ONS said.

‘We continue to see a delay in childbearing, with women born in 1990 becoming the first cohort where half of the women remain childless by their 30th birthday,’ explained Amanda Sharfman, an ONS statistician.

‘Levels of childlessness by age 30 have been steadily rising since a low of 18% for women born in 1941.

‘Lower levels of fertility in those currently in their 20s indicate that this trend is likely to continue.’

For women born in 1975, the most common age to give birth was 31, compared to 22 for the previous generation, the report found.

Women of their grandma’s generation born in the 1920s tended to have children later at age 26 – possibly because of the Second World War.

Those commenting on the findings highlighted a lack of affordable housing, high living and childcare costs as possible drivers behind the trend.

In terms of family size, women born in 1975 had on average 1.92 children, compared with the 2.08 for the generation above them.

Ms Sharfman said: ‘The average number of children born to a woman has been below two for women born since the late 1950s.

‘While two-child families are still the most common, women who have recently completed their childbearing are more likely than their mothers’ generation to have only one child or none at all.’

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2 Responses to " UK: Majority of Women Over 30 are Childless for First Time in Recorded History "

  1. What?? British women do not read EU Times??

    Former Top Pfizer Scientist Michael Yeadon Claims COVID Vaccines May Cause Infertility In Women
    Posted by EU Times on Dec 8th, 2020

    eutimes. net/2020/12/former-top-pfizer-scientist-michael-yeadon-claims-covid-vaccines-may-cause-infertility-in-women/

    Within a Stay Of Action petition filed with the European Medicines Agency requesting that the Phase III Trials in Germany be suspended until serious procedural flaws are corrected, Former Prizer Chief Science Officer, Dr. Michael Yeadon, claims that the COVID vaccine has the potential to cause infertility in women, specifically that the Pfizer COVID vaccine as well as other COVID vaccines currently in Phase III trials are:

    …expected to induce the formation of humoral antibodies against spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2. Syncytin-1 (see Gallaher, B., “Response to nCoV2019 Against Backdrop of Endogenous Retroviruses” –

    virological. org/t/response-to-ncov2019-against-backdrop-of-endogenous-retroviruses/396

    …which is derived from human endogenous retroviruses (HERV) and is responsible for the development of a placenta in mammals and humans and is therefore an essential prerequisite for a successful pregnancy, is also found in homologous form in the spike proteins of SARS viruses.
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