Thanks to COVID, some families are abandoning their plan to have baby No. 2
Thanks to COVID, some families are abandoning their plan to have baby No. 2 The pandemic has amplified the reasons Canadians were already having fewer kids than ever before, and has seen some arrive at an unexpected compromise: an only-child family. When the pandemic arrived last March, Puneeta Sandhu McBryan had just given birth to her first child, a boy. As she locked down and contemplated the future, the popular narrative was that a lot of couples stuck at home would use their free time to make sourdough loaves—and babies. Sandhu McBryan, who lives in Edmonton, admits that she too fanta...