Number of elderly women without children rising - and 'we risk sleepwalking into a crisis'

While it was not possible to estimate the number of childless men from the births data, separate analysis suggests similar levels of childlessness to women in the post-Second World War and 1960s groups.

The ONS warned that the projected increase of elderly childless adults is likely to increase the already"substantial" unmet need in the social care sector. This number does not include older people whose children have died before them or are unable to help them, but it may include women with step or adopted children.

Reasons for the 1960s group remaining childless could include an increase in female employment - with more women attending university, as well as a change in attitudes towards having children. "Although there is no evidence that the children of tomorrow's older population will be any less willing or able to provide care for their parents than the children of today's, there will be much larger numbers of older people in the future who do not have children," the ONS article said.:: Listen to the Daily podcast on

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Who’s gonna pay for it, certainly not there not existent children

Dying alone is worth a great career.

I have stayed in touch with a group of friends since uni' in the early 80s. We are all now mid-late 50s and some of us had no children. We talked about this very issue recently, it is pretty scary not knowing who will help us in our twilight years.

skynews it's 2020. I will fix your headline... 'number of older people without children rising - do we risk sleepwalking into a crisis?'

I bet there's some elderly blokes that don't have kids either. So now you have to have kids when your young, to look after you when you get old.

Loads of homeless cats, then.

WTAF is this bs narrative?! And what about childless men?

So feminist lied to women, it's in their interest to have children, otherwise they could die alone in a nursing home where no one cares about them. I was always told it was misogynistic to tell women they should have children because who's going to care for them when they're old

Who fancies a bit of OAP (Old age p***y)?

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