Mary Wakefield Mary Wakefield

Girls should be taught how to spot a wrong ’un

issue 10 March 2018

We are becoming a nation of older mothers. The average age at which a woman has her first child is now 30, a fifth reach 45 without having a baby and the usual busybodies are in a flap. The government, which had anyway decided on compulsory relationship classes, thinks the answer lies in more of the same.

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