Keeping up with the JONESES

Birth rates have plummeted, with the average family only having 1.7 children in 2019, according to the Office of National Statistics – the lowest since records began in 1938. Costs of childcare, worries for the environment and delaying starting a family are just some reasons for this drop. But with less people having large families, those with children all the same sex are even rarer. Woman speaks to the