Nice adoption trip post by PunditMom — and a series of good ones on Haiti from Adopt-a-tude. Harlow’s Monkey is an ongoing source of critical reflection on the world of international adoption from the perspective of an adult adoptee. Adoption
Childless women of all ages are under assault. If you’re a teenager, you’re pushed toward motherhood by “moralizers.” If you’re a woman 35 or older, you’re subject to ominous news stories creating fertility anxiety. Lately the anxiety peddlers have been expanding their targeted danger zone to include women in their late 20s and early 30s.
Part of the background to the current confusion about how long fertility lasts is the fact that there is very little good data. … The closest thing to a thoroughly controlled experiment of women’s fertility so far involved a Protestant religious sect called the Hutterites, pre-1950.
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,
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+