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FlowerPowerMom.com today announces the upcoming launch of INFORMED CHOICES FOR LATER MOTHERS: What Women Should Know About Fertility, Birth and Parenting After 40, with the release of a 2-minute film trailer revealing key highlights. To view, visit FlowerPowerMom.com. It’s the first multidisciplinary panel of doctors and experts to speak candidly on the controversy surrounding later [...]
By Madelyn Cain, author of “The Childless Revolution, What It Means to Be Childless Today” (Perseus) and “First Time Mothers, Last Chance Babies” (New Horizon Press). In a million years, I will never regret giving birth to my much-wanted daughter at age 39. My husband never regretted it either, and he became her father at [...]
By Dr. Nancy B. Irwin, doctor of clinical psychology and author of You Turn: Changing Direction In Midlife. “Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never a convenient time for any of them!” — Margaret Mitchell Motherhood past age 40 has increased 241% between 1976 and 1996. However, while we all know that physical complications for a [...]
By Deirdre Fishel, independent filmmaker, writer and director of SPERM DONOR X. When I look at my life, there are some things I wish I’d done earlier. I’m now in grad school, so I can teach full time to complement my filmmaking career. But it would’ve been a helluva lot easier doing it without kids. [...]
Yesterday, AARP broadcast a long awaited program on “Inside E-Street” for PBS television, titled “Babies @50″. Lynn Laszewski—from our “A Child After 40” online community—who had her son at 51, kicks off the program with her story. After Laszewski, I was interviewed on controversial social issues, including maternal ageism, and the rising need for FPM’s [...]
Every year, thousands of television viewers wax nostalgic over the fat Christmas goose Mr. Scrooge generously dispatches to the house of Bob Cratchit on Christmas morning. Yet, I’ll lay ten turkeys on a wager if that goose ended up at their house instead, it would receive an entirely different sort of welcome. The notion of [...]
At fifty, I feel as if I’m emerging into the brave new world of parenting after a lifetime lockdown in a Cold War-era bomb shelter. All along, I thought that being older might give me an “edge” when it came to being a mom. Yet, I find myself wandering around just as bemused and disoriented [...]
Little did film writer and director Deidre Fishel imagine that, one day, she would buy sperm over the internet or star in her own documentary with an anonymous leading man—Sperm Donor X. Nor did she consider her twin daughters would have 18 sperm-siblings who were involved in a highly publicized case eventually featured on Oprah. [...]
“Nothing—not a sports car, not a genius dye job—says ‘I’m young’ like a baby on your hip,” wrote Lisa Miller, the journalist who interviewed me—along with a host of pundits—about motherhood after 50. Since when do any of us view a baby as an accessory? Reading the first half of this piece, I began to [...]
Elizabeth Gregory may currently be the most widely quoted academic authority on later life motherhood in the US media. But, for her, there’s more at stake than touting her own special midlife brand of maternal feminism. She’s personally invested in a vision of the future that gives “pro-choice” a whole new meaning. Director of the [...]
Angel on CNN
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Angel on CNN, Mother's Day story, May 8th 2011. (http://www NULL.youtube NULL.com/watch?v=WySnP2nnwXU)
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Read about Angel's CNN debate on Kelly Preston's pregancy.
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