by snowydays | Jul 28, 2014 | Childbirth, Families, Feminism
The UK’s total fertility rate is 1.82, way below replacement rate of 2.1. Our population is shrinking. Not so fast as in some other European countries, though, where the overall rate is 1.59. Today’s average household size in the UK is 2.3 persons. 50 years ago it was...
by snowydays | Jul 28, 2014 | Childbirth, Feminism
I asked my mother – born in 1908 – why there were so few women in public life and she replied: ‘because they spend so much time combing their hair and looking in mirrors.’ I asked my father, a doctor – born in 1889 – and he replied: ‘because they have a space in their...
by snowydays | Mar 12, 2014 | Childbirth, Families, News and Views from Fay Weldon
Hans Rosling of the BCC’s statistical team tells us we don’t have to panic – world population is levelling out, and will stabilise at about 11 billion. The size of the average family the world over is now 2.5 children, as the news spreads that the larger the family,...
by snowydays | Oct 29, 2013 | News and Views from Fay Weldon
The sensuous woman She’s usually blonde by choice and runs to fat if she doesn’t diet scrupulously: difficult, because she does really like food. She’s sensitive – her skin marks easily: bruises, weals, bumps and hives come and go. Dress-wise she goes to extremes:...
by snowydays | Oct 3, 2013 | News and Views from Fay Weldon
I slept late on Sunday morning and woke to hear a jokey discussion on the radio about socialism and capitalism, which were terms I was brought up with, but whose meaning has changed over the decades. So that when Ed Milliband talks about democratic socialism the young...
