City Babies Are an Endangered Breed

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SCOTLAND'S biggest cities are becoming child-free zones according to stark new figures which reveal the pattern of falling birth rates behind the country's dramatic population decline.

The number of babies being born in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Stirling have plummeted to all-time lows, and women in Aberdeen are also having fewer children than they were in the mid-1990s.

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City Babies Are an Endangered Breed

The new figures also show that rural Aberdeenshire and Perth and Kinross are now the only areas of Scotland where women are listening to the politicians' calls to "breed for Scotland".

But as experts and politicians argue about the best way to reverse the declining population, the worrying message in the figures is that even in the most prolific areas, fewer ...

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