For much of the last century, people had good reason to wonder whether it made sense to have babies. Millions of young men had died or been maimed in the trenches, and then along came the risk of being pulverised by an atom bomb.
Nonetheless, men and women continued to have children and after both world wars there was a baby boom.
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