Childcare expenses dictating size of families

THE huge cost of childcare is deciding the size of Irish families, according to the Irish Examiner/Lansdowne Market Research (LMR) poll.

Couples where both parents work admitted that having another child would force one of them to give up their job.

Almost half of couples (48%) feel childcare is so expensive that either the mother or father has considered giving up work, regardless of whether they had plans to extend their family.