How many children should you have?
Or should we have them at all? There’s the cost, your sanity, and the planet...never mind the effect on the kids. Six writers enter a moral maze
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TWO by Jonathon Porritt
First, no woman should feel under any pressure whatsoever to have any children at all. From a broad societal point of view, the more women who feel that children just aren’t for them, the better it is in terms of bringing down average fertility. And that is an absolute priority for the world today.
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