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Most young people want to have children. Preferably two or more. This has been the case for 50 years. The new thing is that there is a growing gap between the dream of having children and reality, according to a new study.

Young people still dream of having children, but fewer are being born

Foto: Claus Nørregaard/POLITIKEN
Foto: Claus Nørregaard/POLITIKEN
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Young adults no longer want to have children. And certainly not as many as in the old days.

That’s often the narrative when discussing the historically low and declining number of children born per woman in Denmark.

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