It's both. House prices have risen with the existence of many more dual incomes, and we have far more duel income families than we used to because house prices have risen so much. But all of that is … (View Post)
I'm not sure I'd assume that. The issue is that in large swathes of the country, house prices mean they don't have a choice. I don't want to make people into stay at home mums (or dads) if they actua… (View Post)
The best fix for larger family sizes is to sort the housing market, so buying a decent house doesn't require both parents to be out at work and the child dumped in childcare from 6 months old. Matern… (View Post)
I'm not sure that's completely bonkers in some circumstance. My wife and I could live fairly comfortably on £20k/year outside of housing costs. So provided we didn't have kids (there's the rub), we c… (View Post)
How much of that is because traces of drugs hang around in people's systems rather longer than alcohol? You'd have to have a pretty major session to still be over the drink drive limit 24 hours later… (View Post)