Thinking about ‘affording’ it is the wrong way about, though. If it were a question of affording it, then wealthier families would have more children - and farm their care out to staff as used to be … (View Post)

Some decades ago, when I studied demography at Cambridge, the academics’ favoured theory was that it mostly came down to economics. If having an extra child was a net economic benefit to the parents … (View Post)

That hasn’t been the assumption until recently, and you still read theories along the lines of some Stone Age man imagining that having his own pet wolf would be super-useful and hence he nicked some… (View Post)

Theresa May has a lot to answer for (View Post)

There’s an emerging view that wolves domesticated themselves, rather than it being the result of intentional human initiative. Wolves competed with humans when it came to hunting, and as humans becam… (View Post)