“I know from my friends who have children, the cost of childcare is as expensive as their mortgage” An Irish psychotherapist has said Ireland’s birth rates have declined in part due to the cost of living crisis. With the rise in outgoing costs per household combined with the financial burden of childcare and mortgage repayments, […]
2 years ago
The new norm. Record numbers of women are reaching the age of 30 without having had children, new figures have revealed. In fact, according to according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), more than half (50.1 percent) of women in England and Wales born in 1990 were child-free when they turned 30 in 2020. […]
4 years ago
Last year 61,016 babies were born in the Republic of Ireland. What this mean, says experts, is that while the economy seem to only be going from strength to strength following our recovery after the Celtic Tiger crash a decade ago, birth rates are going in the other direction. In fact, compared to 2009, when […]
6 years ago
Birth rates in Ireland are continuing to fall steadily, according to new figures. The Central Statistic Office has revealed that there were 1,844 fewer births recorded last year than there were in 2016. There were 62,053 registered births in Ireland in 2017, with the average mother in Ireland being slightly older than the previous year […]
8 years ago