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The Broken Promise of Adulthood

The Broken Promise of Adulthood

Why the life people were promised no longer arrives in order. I started university in 1997, part of the last UK intake before tuition fees were introduced. I graduated in 2001. I had a job offer in New York, a future I’d only just started to imagine. Then September...
Your grandchildren may not exist

Your grandchildren may not exist

Across developed countries, the share of adults never becoming parents has roughly doubled since the mid-twentieth century. In some countries, projections suggest it could reach one in three for women born in the 1990s.