Viggo de Oliveira, 5, meets his brother, Orson, for the first time few hours after the delivery at a Toronto hospital, August 17, 2017. The costs of basic things, like housing and child care, made their parents wait five years before deciding on having a second child. According to the 2016 census, the rate of growth since 2011 among couples living without children has been greater than among those couples living with children, at 7.2 per cent to 2.3 per cent.
