Are you ever too old to have a baby? - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service
In countries across the world women are deciding to delay motherhood. Increased access to education, more career opportunities and less financial stability means that more and more women are having children later in life.
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But fewer babies now, could mean more economic pressures on the rest of us in the future. We explore this complex topic with the BBC’s Population Correspondent Stephanie Hegarty and Professor of Reproductive Science at University College London, Joyce Harper.
00:09 Introduction
01:58 How old is an older mother?
02:44 Global motherhood trends
03:30 Much older first-time mothers
04:51 Why women are choosing to have babies later
07:39 Environmental concerns around having children
09:07 How we’re having babies later with fertility treatment
11:02 The consequences for global populations
15:33 Private sector paying for staff fertility treatment
16:35 “Having kids is fabulous“
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