This week I’ve posted a guest blog on the morphing aesthetics of aging today, at the Women’s Review of Books site Women=Books, hosted by the Wellesley Centers for Women: “Not that YOU Look Old…”: On Later Motherhood” Please stop in,
Sorry I’ve been slow in posting here lately – there’s so much to say, I’m flummoxed on where to start! For today, I’ll back up a bit, and point toward prognostications issued in August about the falling birth rate in
But society as a whole benefits when all citizens who want them can have kids when they’re ready–at the most basic level because we need a next generation of workers, but at another level because we want our citizens to be happy–for charitable reasons and more pragmatically because families are often an important part of what people work for, at whatever point they start them.
Here’s a link to a report from the CDC out today on the global rise in later motherhood. Exciting to be cited as a reference! And here’s another link to a related story in USA Today, including some input from
Here’s a link to a story by Karen West published in Seattle Woman Magazine in May. The media stories on later motherhood focus most on infertility — but 1 in every 7 US babies is born to a mom 35+
On the fiftieth anniversary of the biggest birth year in US history, the record burst. More babies were born in 2007 than in any year prior: 4,317,119, according to the CDC. Before that the record was an approximate 4,300,000 –
Mother Knows Best Woman gives birth at 70 — isn’t that ridiculous? Or worse, isn’t it unethical, to bear kids you might not be around to see into adulthood? Those aren’t my questions — they’re the undertow in all the