Of course, it helps when you’re a former Prime Minister with a healthy book deal(s), a lucrative speaking circuit sideline, and a sizeable property portfolio. For Boris and Carrie, the cost of childcare isn’t quite the same existential crisis it is for most late 20- or 30-somethings staring down average rents, insecure work, and nursery fees that rival the price of private schools.
The news, coming simultaneously with the prospect of changes to the controversial two-child benefit cap, necessitates reflection not just on the attitudinal shift towards having larger families, but on the consequences.
www.instagram.com/p/DKClDlRol05/Across the UK, primary schools are quietly closing. Some inner London boroughs are projected to have one in four school places empty in the near future. Local authorities are merging, consolidating and shutting down primary schools because birth rates are falling. My own local state primary now shares its site with a Mandarin school. We need to talk about this.
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As the population balance tips, the consequences become clear. Who pays for pensions and social care for the elderly? How will the NHS cope? Who fills classrooms, drives buses, or builds homes?
No wonder prospective parents hesitate. Children aren’t just emotionally expensive – for so many, struggling to meet exorbitant housing costs, they’re financially out of reach. While social media might glamorise parenthood, the maths tells another story. People aren’t having fewer children because they’re selfish; they simply cannot afford them.
Yes, we can chuckle at Boris’s expanding family tree. But after the chuckles fade, ask the harder question: how is it that one of the most important things a society needs – children – has become something only the comfortable can afford?
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