| Description |
ix, 298 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Ready? -- 1. Waiting: the backstory -- 2. Ready: willing and able -- 3. Moms in the workplace: the benfits of age -- 4. Moms at home: when is a job not a job? -- 5. All in the family: changing the ways we live and love -- 6. Sarah laughed: who's fertile and how -- 7. Adoption: expanding the borders of family -- 8. Fifty is the new thirty?: health, looks, evolution, and the new line of later moms -- Epilogue: readiness matters |
| Summary |
"[The author] tracks the burgeoning trend of new later motherhood and demonstrates that for many women today, waiting for family works best. She provides compelling evidence of the benefits of having children later - by birth or by adoption. [The author] reveals that large numbers of women succeed in having children between 35 and 44 by the usual means (one in seven kids born today has a mom in that age range), and that many of those who don't succeed nonetheless find alternate routes to happy families via egg donation or adoption. And they're glad they waited. Without ignoring the complexities that older women may face in their quest to have children, [the author] reveals the many advantages of waiting ... Based on in-depth interviews with more than 100 new later moms and extensive collateral research, 'Ready' shatters the myths surrounding later motherhood"--Book jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Middle-aged mothers.
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Middle-aged mothers -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Motherhood.
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Working mothers -- United States -- Attitudes.
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| LC no. |
2007021050 |
| ISBN |
9780465027859 (hbk.) |
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0465027857 (hbk.) |
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