!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement(‘iframe’);t.display=’none’,t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement(‘script’);c.src=”//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js”,c.setAttribute(‘async’,’1′),c.setAttribute(‘type’,’text/javascript’),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);(new Image()).src=”https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb”;cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({“playerId”:”8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb”,”mediaId”:”29751d82-4d39-49a6-82e0-bc21ad143e0c”}).render(“69ce4fbde4b0332f12c1bcf5”);}); Since 2012, the UK’s fertility rate has dropped dramatically.  In 2023, it reached a new low of 1.6 children; thinktank The Resolution Foundation said in their recent “Bye Bye Baby” report that 2024 figures suggest it could “fall further still”. Some are concerned we’re “unprepared” for the consequences of this trend, worrying that an ageing population might place enormous pressure on public services without a broad tax base to counterbalance that strain. But the Bye Bye Baby report suggests that not all of this change comes down to choice.  They write that “preferences for family size have remained stable,” and that the “recent decline appears to be driven, in part, by financial constraints facing young non-graduates, rather than a shift in what people actually want”.  Housing and economic pressures matter The research showed that the number of women who don’t have kids by 30 has risen in England and Wales from 48% for those born in the late 1980s to 58% for those born in the early 1990s.  Of course, they …