What is the best age to start a family?
Fertility experts say don't delay but 50% of UK babies are born to women over 30. The number of men having babies over 50 has risen by two thirds in last 16 years alone. Mariella Frostrup is joined by Melinda Mills, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford; Vishal Wilde, columnist on political, economic and financial topics for The Market Mogul; Professor Heather Joshi from University of London, an expert in economic and developmental demography; and Sophie Walker, leader of Women's Equality Party, to discuss when is the best age to start a family.
First broadcast on Bringing Up Britain, 17 July 2017.
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