Tick tock of the biological clock. (The Age / Sushi Das)

From the article: “About 22 per cent of Australian women are predicted to remain childless, according to ANU demographer Professor Peter McDonald. Of those, 7 per cent will choose not to have children, 6 per cent will be infertile and about 9 per cent will be childless through circumstance.

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The impact of very low fertility is widely documented: a rapidly shrinking population, a chronic shortage of young workers, a dwindling tax base, increasingly child-unfriendly institutions; less competitive economies and unhappy people who do not fulfil their desire to have children. A few weeks ago, in his first speech to Parliament, Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull warned: “The demographic storm is coming.”“