♀️Over half of women are turning 30 without children, as later motherhood becomes the norm.
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telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/2…
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telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/2…
More than half of women are childless by the age of 30, according to official figures which show later motherhood, or choosing not to have any children, has now become the norm
The statistics show that for the first time, the majority of women enter their 30s without having started a family
📉It is the first time there have been more childless women than mothers below the age of 30 since records dating back to 1920 began
🤰While 50.1 per cent of today’s 30-year-olds are childless, the most common age for those born in 1975 to give birth was 31 years.
🍼For the generation of baby boomers before that, born in 1949, the age was 22
🍼For the generation of baby boomers before that, born in 1949, the age was 22
Amanda Sharfman, an ONS statistician, 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”
💼Surveys have found that those planning a family often delay for years, as they seek to rise up the career ladder and buy their first home
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