Women are having more children than at any time since the 1970s, with almost one in four born to foreign mothers, official figures show.

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521899673515819821.post-19879722011901776122008-07-11T02:45:00.002+01:002008-07-11T02:50:50.181+01:00Women are having more children than at any time since the 1970s, with almost one in four born to foreign mothers, official figures show.<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JL_Z4awEAic/SHa8akEx2II/AAAAAAAABGg/lKvd7W_MvuA/s1600-h/Tameside+Asian+family.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221567982529009794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JL_Z4awEAic/SHa8akEx2II/AAAAAAAABGg/lKvd7W_MvuA/s320/Tameside+Asian+family.jpg" border="0" /></a>Each woman now has 1.91 children on average - the highest since 1973 - according to the Office for National Statistics. As a result the number of births - 690,000 - increased by 20,000 in 2007 compared to the previous year, when there were 1.86 children per woman. A third of those were born to British mothers and the rest to women originally from overseas. One factor in the rise is the tendency for foreign-born mothers, particularly from the Indian sub-continent, to have large families. On average, foreign women have 2.5 children each, rising to almost five for those from Pakistan, and 3.9 from Bangladesh.The number of babies born to British mothers is also increasing, but lags far behind immigrants at an average of 1.7 children each. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2281883/Women-having-more-children-than-at-any-point-since-1970s.html">The Telegraph</a>Tameside Citizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360798844854365955noreply@blogger.com