Children—the coming luxury
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With life expectancy increasing and pensions becoming a thing of the past, couples everywhere are being forced to carry on working for many more years just to save enough for retirement and old-age care. As a result, fertility rates are plunging around the world as couples have fewer and fewer children—and at a much later age—than their parents did. This is putting a whole new set of strains on parents and children alike.
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Listen to the podcast: Life becomes a blur
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Marian Salzman, executive vice-president of JWT and co-author of “Next Now” (to be published in December by Palgrave Macmillan), describes how the traditional view of the family is fragmenting into different styles of living.
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