Bus pass mums

Instead of worrying about births to teenage mothers perhaps we should be worrying about births to women aged at least 45. Two thirds of them were to unmarried mothers.

Children are being born to mothers who will qualify for a bus pass before their offspring have even taken their GCSEs.

And this is happening at an ever increasing rate. There were 575 such children born in 1998, by 2008 there were 2 ½ times as many.

The number of births to teenage mums (those aged under 20) had fallen to 7% below the 1998 figure in 2008.

Link

Birth statistics 2008 series FM1 No 37 Table 3.1

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