We need only see the society around us to realize that for many women motherhood is not a priority. That translates into that there are more and more women without children.
According to Social Panorama magazine one in four women born in the 1970s will not have children. Probably most of our readers were born in those years, like me, women between 30 and 40 years, stage of life in which many became mothers.
The difference is remarkable if we compare it with women born in the 1950s, when only one in ten had no children.
The worrying thing about women today is late motherhood, beyond 35 years. It happens that women study a career and go to work away from home relegating motherhood for more years than desired.
As mothers are increasingly older, the biological clock takes its toll, fertility drops and more and more the methods of assisted fertilization are used.
If at least every woman living in Spain had two children, the generational replacement would be guaranteed. However, the fertility rate is 1.5 children per woman.
Although after the great decline in 1995 in Spain, the average number of children per woman has rebounded, in part thanks to the births of children of immigrant women. The funny thing is that when installed in the country, they have been progressively copying the reproductive model of the Spanish.
But this is not only the trend in Spain, but also occurs in the rest of Europe. The truth is that there is a complex demographic change with very important consequences, from my rather negative perspective, at all levels.
