Can we boost birth rates? Experts have warned that a new and silent crisis is looming, threatening to shatter our economies and upend the structure of our lives. Prepare, they say, to greet a future without children.
Experts warn of ‘the end of children’
Falling fertility: While the number of births in England and Wales fell to a record low last year, the number of women of child-bearing age – 12 million – was the highest ever.