{"id":78014,"date":"2025-07-29T20:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78014"},"modified":"2025-07-29T20:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:25:48","slug":"britons-arent-having-children-for-one-simple-reason-they-just-cant-afford-it-story-by-alicja-hagopian-2h-4-min-read-childrens-social-care-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/29\/britons-arent-having-children-for-one-simple-reason-they-just-cant-afford-it-story-by-alicja-hagopian-2h-4-min-read-childrens-social-care-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Britons aren\u2019t having children for one simple reason \u2013 they just can\u2019t afford it"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1IMNeh.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Children\u2019s social care sector\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of British adults are putting off or deciding against having children, with money worries a top factor, a stark new poll reveals.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/britons-aren-t-having-children-for-one-simple-reason-they-just-can-t-afford-it\/ar-AA1JwiIN?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=5b6ae8320ffc4cc2a698faef0930a75c&amp;ei=12\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nearly half of British adults are putting off or deciding against having children, with money worries a top factor, a stark new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/baby-whooping.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78018,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78014\/revisions\/78018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}