Only a quarter of millennials who want children are trying for them

Two fifths of 32-year-olds in England want children – or more children, if they are already parents – but only one in four of them are actively trying to conceive, according to research by Dr Alina Pelikh (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society).

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