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One Child or Fifteen (and counting..)?

When ever there are article’s about only children in the newspapers or programmes about people who have many children; like the recent programme  ‘Fifteen Kids and Counting’ on  Channel 4, it givs rise to a great deal of media coverage e.g. news papers such as the Guardian and Telegraph. I then often get phone calls from journalists writing an article or I am asked to give an opinion on local radio somewhere in the country.  What I find interesting is some of the parallels that arise in the choice of having only one child compared to choosing to have many children. One of the most common questions I am asked on local radio is why do some people choose to have only one child? Well there are, of course, a number of reasons but for many there was no actual choice. This may be because of fertility issues, death of a [...]

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