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If they are so happy without children at 30, imagine how much fun they’ll be having at 50.
As we recently learned, women actually become more attractive after the age of 30, so they’ll be able to get even more attention at the clubs from men, as they focus on their careers.
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.
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