{"id":272829,"date":"2025-08-27T18:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-arent-we-having-more-babies\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:05:18","slug":"why-arent-we-having-more-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-arent-we-having-more-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Why aren\u2019t we having more babies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/bOO1GJ_orgw\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why aren\u2019t we having more babies?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bOO1GJ_orgw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The total fertility rate for England and Wales &#8211; defined as the number of children a woman can expect to have over her lifetime &#8211; has fallen to another record low.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the third year in a row the rate has fallen, and the biggest decline in fertility is among those aged between 25 and 29, increasing the average age of parents to 31 for mothers and 33.9 for fathers. 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