{"id":90577,"date":"2026-06-11T10:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90577"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:59:58","slug":"baby-crunch-looms-as-women-wait-longer-to-start-families-and-have-fewer-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/11\/baby-crunch-looms-as-women-wait-longer-to-start-families-and-have-fewer-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby crunch looms as women wait longer to start families and have fewer children"},"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\"> < 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\/AA25h28Z.img?w=634&h=567&m=6\" alt=\"Women born in 1979 have a completed family size of 1.95 - compared to 2.12 for their grandmothers and 2.05 for their 'baby boomer' mothers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A looming baby crunch was laid bare today as figures showed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/health\/fertility\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">fertility<\/a> continuing to drop.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/baby-crunch-looms-as-women-wait-longer-to-start-families-and-have-fewer-children\/ar-AA25hL6N?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a2a8f70fde34e108be689fdd5efe2cd&ei=43\">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>A looming baby crunch was laid bare today as figures showed\u00a0fertility continuing to drop.\u00a0 Read More<\/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":["post-90577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/90577","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=90577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90578,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90577\/revisions\/90578"}],"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=90577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}