Pearl - September 22, 2026


“Women Keep DELAYING Motherhood Until It’s Too Late” @JustPearlyThings

Drunk Mom Drives Her 3 Kids Around With DRUGS in the Car “Christian Women Keep REJECTING Good Men and Wonder Why They’re Single” @JustPearlyThings

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00:00:00.000 happening in this part of london fewer babies are being born here than in almost any other
00:00:05.600 part of the county i think this is close to where i lived that sounds really familiar i have to look
00:00:11.060 it up but i was east london i was in white chapel do i want to bring someone else and i was in the
00:00:15.960 darklands into that if i can't actually support myself at this point we live in a one bedroom as 0.99
00:00:20.920 well two kids so housing is bad there it's really expensive all the immigration it totally jacks up 1.00
00:00:27.580 prices it would be a very strange city without any families wouldn't it okay before we get into 1.00
00:00:34.620 this i want to point out that fertility rates that's the number of children that a woman is
00:00:38.940 expected to have over her lifetime are falling in other parts of the world in england and across
00:00:45.100 inner london but i've come here to islington because that trend is more extreme at 0.99 it's
00:00:52.460 the lowest rate in the capital apart from the city of london and one of the lowest in the country
00:00:58.220 to put it in perspective the rate in england and wales is 1.4 which is already down from 1.9 15
00:01:04.620 years ago the average age of a mother in islington is also 34.7 the fourth highest in the country
00:01:15.660 i want to find out what's really behind these numbers so i joined a zip zap baby music class
00:01:21.420 in the borough how have you found family life in islington crisis is a huge factor like it's
00:01:26.220 increasing um and renting us as well and even if we have good job we are not sure we could afford
00:01:32.380 with like that and taking it on the one second child we know that we need to move out of london
00:01:37.260 it's kind of crazy because in america they all say they can't afford to have kids but then there's
00:01:41.660 some tut like some tut hut in africa and there's like seven kids lived out of there so i don't know
00:01:47.580 white women are kind of spoiled we're the most spoiled you know demographic making the decision
00:01:51.820 to move back to luxembourg yes exactly uh luxembourg is a country when child care is free this is my 0.88
00:01:57.580 first and i was 41 when i first had him it's difficult for women to know when the right time
00:02:03.340 is to have a baby and and so i think you want to sort of reach like the pinnacle of your career
00:02:09.980 um before maybe like venturing down that path i was 35 so i had her a bit later um
00:02:15.980 so it was too cold it was intentional because i was moving forward in my career and i was really
00:02:20.460 really focused on that um and then when we started to try no one tells you how hard it actually is
00:02:26.300 are you a local dad in the area yeah yeah i am yeah what do you think the big challenges are
00:02:30.780 then in living in islington as a family we live in a one bedroom as well two kids so
00:02:36.220 our living room becomes our bedroom our one bed becomes the kids room and you know it's one of
00:02:41.420 of those things where you just have to juggle and make use of space but um you know isn't it's a 1.00
00:02:46.600 very lovely area to live in it's great you see how he sees the positive and the women just complain 1.00