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What can be done to improve falling birth rates?

Quality public childcare and dependable dads are key to boosting fertility rates, so writes John...

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16.29 31 Aug 2026


What can be done to improve falling birth rates?


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16.29 31 Aug 2026


Quality public childcare and dependable dads are key to boosting fertility rates, so writes John Fitzgerald, Adjunct Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin in today's Irish Times.

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