The recession has led women to reconsider their fertility plans, with new research showing there has been a sharp decline in the number of births since 2007.
Provisional figures for 2010 show that the number of births has dropped to nearly 4.01 million, compared to a record high of 4.3 million births in 2007, according to a recent study by the Pew Research centre.
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