Where Australia's next generation is coming from ! Information is from the recent census.
One of the issues being picked up by family researchers is the growing divide between less-educated women who do have children and their childless degree-holding sisters.
Ninety per cent of Australian women under 30 years of age with a degree have no children, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reports.
The figure is 75pc for women of the same age with no qualifications.
Rich women aren't having children.
Only 20,000 babies are born a year to families where their income is more than $80,000. That's out of almost 250,000 babies born in total.
Unemployed women are more likely to have children, less well-educated women, women in country towns where there are fewer job opportunities and indigenous women who have on average five children each.
But would it not be a better outcome for society if educated women also had the opportunity to raise the next generation and contribute their skills?
