Australia has had a baby boom and a baby bust. Are we likely to have a baby bounce - an increase in the average number of babies women have in their lifetime? This Current Issues Brief examines the available data.

This paper by Lois Bryson and Alison Mackinnon provides a summary of key points to emerge from the research papers presented at the workshop 'Population, gender and reproductive choice: the motherhood questions', held in Adelaide in February 2000.