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Penny Booth: Having children?

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Date:15 JUN 2010

Having children?

Penny BoothTwo family law items this week struck me in the middle of the forehead: one on abortion of IVF babies the other on nurseries being good for children.

As a reminder of young motherhood (to be PC perhaps I ought to say 'young parenthood') both items seemed to provide that nudge on what was at least for me hard work and angst. It still is hard work and angst only the things I personally worry about in parenthood have changed but it remains for me a time I would never have swapped for the world. A time that is also personally a long time ago so maybe the pressures for parents have changed but surely not that much though?

It seems that nurseries are good for children so parents should not fret ('Don't fret Mum nurseries are good for them' The...

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