In New Zealand the age of having children has shifted later and later, with many women prioritising a career in early adult life over a family. And developments in fertility medicine have helped this trend. In New Zealand, women give birth to the most children between 30 and 34, but this was not always the Read more
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Developments in fertility medicine contributes to trend to having children later
Thursday, March 15th, 2018The failure of Sweden’s motherhood experiment
Monday, February 26th, 2018
In an iconic article published a decade ago and entitled, “The Motherhood Experiment,” the New York Times Magazine celebrated Sweden for solving the population and family problems of modern European society. It explained: “Curiously, Europe’s lowest birthrates are seen in countries, mostly Catholic, where the old idea that the man is the breadwinner and the woman is Read more