Older mothers, fewer babies clock all-time low.(News) From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: December 13, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

WOMEN are having fewer children and waiting later to become mothers, it was revealed yesterday as official statistics showed the birth rate had dropped to an all-time low.

The "average woman" in England and Wales is having 1.64 children in her lifetime and waiting until she is 27 before having her first baby.

Yet Wales had the highest teenage birth rates, along with the north east - both with 32.5 births per 1,000 to youngsters aged between 15 and 19, compare...