A record high 120,000 women in Bulgaria had an abortion in the first five months of 1996, Trud and Kontinent reported on 26 June, of which 100,000 were legal and the rest illegal. According to official data, 150,000 pregnancies were interrupted in 1995, while only 72,000 babies were born. Sociologists believe that within a few years, one out of four families will have only one child. Among the educated, the young, and the rich, the desire to have children is constantly declining.