9. Family Guy

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Perhaps it's down to many of us realising that our career actually isn't the be and end all or maybe we've just got more spare time on our hands now that we're staying in more, but since the recession struck, more and more of us are coming round to the fact that now is as good a time as any to start a family. Women who have had to put up with men who ‘weren't ready' for kids now have the upper hand as unemployed city workers are looking for a new project to get, ahem, stuck into. Could this be the start of a new baby boom?