The ego generation

SARAH VINE claims women are leaving it too late to have children because men refuse to commit to a relationship. After decades of belittling men as fathers and husbands, it has started to dawn on women that fulfilment of such roles came with a price.

Responsibility, self-restraint, sacrifice of ambition and pleasures were demonstrated by generations of family men.

In an era of egotism, not only women are staying child-free or delaying being parents. Men are doing the same.

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