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The New Baby Boom.... Biggest in 4 decades

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  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote:



    These are prime property owning middle class career types.

    Your worst nightmare, in other words.:D

    Why is this my worst nightmare??? Especially as myself and nearly all of my friends fall into this category.

    I did read the article, however, just because this group represents the biggest percentage increase doesn't mean it's the biggest numerical increase. Women having children in their 40's is a relatively new concept so the percentage incesse is bound to be large.
    20% is a larger number than 3%, but 3% of 10,000 is larger than 20% of 1,000.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    DaddyBear wrote: »
    Women having children in their 40's is a relatively new concept so the percentage incesse is bound to be large.
    20% is a larger number than 3%, but 3% of 10,000 is larger than 20% of 1,000.

    *yawn*
    “The birth rate had been artificially depressed by the rise of educated women in the workforce — but when they stop postponing children, the eventual family size may remain the same,” Coleman says.

    Stop and have a think about just how many educated women in the workforce there are, and how many of them have been postponing children.

    And then have a think about the baby boom (like this one) that would be created if they decide to have babies while they can.;)

    The uneducated had babies all the way through. The educated delayed children, and are now having them.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • Exocet
    Exocet Posts: 744 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    The uneducated had babies all the way through. The educated delayed children, and are now having them.
    I assume this is a coded message and would like to offer my congratulations to you Hamish. Boy or a girl?
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Exocet wrote: »
    I assume this is a coded message and would like to offer my congratulations to you Hamish. Boy or a girl?

    :rotfl:

    No thanks......

    Still no desire to fill the McTavish house with rug rats.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Should help pay those state pensions as well :T
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • boomerangs
    boomerangs Posts: 284 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    The New Baby Boom.... Biggest in 4 decades
    Not in the McTavish household there ain't. Somebody needs to get some lead in their pencil. haha
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    boomerangs wrote: »
    haha
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    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • silvercar
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    So there is a demand for 3/ 4 bedroom houses rather than studio flats in inner cities; no wonder the value of flats has fallen whereas there is increased demand for family homes.
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  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    The problem is these yer effnic chappies are happy with a slightly higher occupancy ratio than we are, so the number of houses needed may be small...

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  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Isn't that place a slum?

    Sure i seen it in a documentry. Was absolutely amazing! You didn't even get steps up the mountain, you'd simply climb!
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