It is old news that birth rates are falling in Britain and across the West. And yet, despite this, discussion around fertility rates is only just becoming mainstream in the UK.
While a few of our politicians begin to ask why women are having so few children, Catherine Pakaluk, a social scientist, Catholic mother of eight and associate professor at the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America, has sought to answer the inverse: why do some women choose to have lots of children?
