Here’s an interesting post about the dynamics of older child adoption of the international kind from Catherine Olian: Kidnapped or Saved: How Some Orphans Really Feel When They’re Adopted
Thinking about older child adoption
Childlessness Up, Down and Steady: Parsing the New Pew Report
Childlessness and Later Fertility Here’s another later-fertility story from the Pew Research Center. Last month they confirmed our suspicion that there are indeed more older moms around. This month they report that fewer women are having kids. Both reports resonate
What’s it worth to you?
Here’s one of those stories that tells you what the work you’re doing at home would be paid if you had to hire someone else to do it. … Of course a big part of the job of mothering is about what someone else couldn’t or wouldn’t do. And specifically about evading the paid economy. If it were paid at these rates, a lot of this work wouldn’t get done, because few people could afford it. Family is another word for venture capital, of both monetary and non-monetary kinds.
Planning Motherhood: The Pill and Socioeconomic Change
Up until recently, women’s work has been largely limited to bearing and rearing the workforce for free, because they had no other option. But when sex and babies cease to be directly linked, business and government risk losing their major underwriter—the moms, if they don’t offer of family-supportive policies for women who want to combine work and childrearing.
The New Demography of American Motherhood
Lots of news stories lately on the later motherhood trend, including this new report from the Pew Research Center that documents that in fact there are lots more older moms than twenty years ago, and fewer teen moms.
Ladies, and gentlemen, you heard it all here first — or maybe you heard it in your own circle of friends and relations — since all these stories are, after all, reporting on us, not on the pronatalist fantasies of screen writers and journalists.
Later Motherhood: The Wage Effect
The biggest salary gains were for women who had invested some of the delay time in getting an advanced degree and then went on to establish at work before having kids.
The End or a Shot in the ARM?
The sudden closure could mean the end to a long and productive series of conferences and publications on issues related to mothering around the globe. But ARM’s supporters are working to turn things around.