The amount of women wanting to ‘take their future into their hands’ has increased sharply in the past decade, which experts have linked to changing social norms

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More than one in 20 IVF treatments for single women

One in six of all private or NHS fertility treatments in the UK is accessed by single women or female couples, according to a report from the fertility regulator. The number of single women having these treatments, including in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), has risen from 1,400 in 2012 to 4,800 in 2022, while the number of […]

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More single women and female couples having IVF

The fertility regulator has released a new report on how different families access treatment.

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Evgeny Lebedev

London

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England

Almost 5,000 had fertility treatment in the UK in 2022, with an average age of 36 – the youngest on record

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David and Frederick Barclay

Number of single women undergoing IVF triples in 10 years

A rising number of single women are embarking on parenthood without a partner, figures suggest.

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Shropshire

While there has been a rise in women accessing IVF, charities like Gingerbread - which represents single-parent families - said it was "disappointing to see discrimination against single parents persist".

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Roberts family

Single women having IVF triples in a decade but NHS funding remains limited, regulator says

Some 6% of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycles in 2022 were for single women, a rise from 2% in 2012, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) said.

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Rising number of single women turn to IVF to become mums

Between 2012 and 2022, the proportion of IVF cycles being carried out for single women trebled, up from 2% of all treatments to 6%.

Scotland

Rising number of single women undergoing IVF, regulator finds

Slovenian bishops regret the latest decision of the Constitutional Court, according to which single women and women in same-sex unions will be entitled to fertilization procedures with biomedical assistance. "We understand this decision as a further step towards dismantling the ideal of the family as the basic building block of our society," the Slovenian Bishops' Conference wrote.

Slovenski škofje obžalujejo najnovejšo odločitev ustavnega sodišča, po kateri bodo samske ženske in ženske v istospolnih zvezah upravičene do postopkov oploditve z biomedicinsko pomočjo. "To odločitev razumemo kot nadaljnji korak k razgradnji ideala družine kot osnovnega gradnika naše družbe," so zapisali pri Slovenski škofovski konferenci.

Škofje: Umetna oploditev samskih in istospolnih žensk je razgradnja ideala družine

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Bishops: Artificial insemination of single and same-sex women is a breakdown of the ideal of the family

The number of single women undergoing fertility treatment has tripled in the last 10 years as the average age has dropped to 36 - the youngest ever recorded. Data from Britain's fertility regulator has revealed that in 2022 nearly 5,000 single UK women underwent IVF or donor insemination (DI) treatment.This is three times more than the 1,534 treatments recorded in 2012 according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) report.A…

Number of single women choosing IVF to have babies alone triples

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