First of all I want to show the figure of the population of the United Kingdom, it numbered 57.4 million in 1990. And it reported that by around 1870 a fall in the birth rate became apparent and continued, except for the severe disruption of World War I, as a more or less linear decline for 60 years until 1930s, when it reached a low at about the same level as that today.
I think it means that the size of family become smaller than before in the Britain, and when I went to the Internet I found a information that from an average Victorian family size of five to six children ever-born, but now, it is rarely happened in the Britain. I asked for my neighbors about the size of their families (four of them are from the Britain), only one of them has two brothers and a sister, two of them have a brother or a sister, and one is only children. So I think the trends in the size of families in Britain would be smaller families… And as the birth rate decrease and the elderly people become more and more today, it leads to many problems such as decreasing the future proportion of working age people, the government would serve more subsidies health care and nursing house, it means that the expenditure of the finance would become larger to the government.
In conclusion, it is not just a problem about the size of families, and it also about all the society and finance problem in the Britain.
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Hi Kevin
I'm happy to hear that you've spoken to some of your British neighbours! A sample of 4 families is not really large enough to establish a trend. However, it seems your conclusions are correct. Your sample group (your neighbours) confirm what you have read. Families are getting smaller.
It will be interesting to see how society tries to correct itself! Do you think in the future, people with begin to have larger families again. Perhaps this will help to make an adjustment!
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