By Pamela Ferdinand, journalist and co-author with Carey Goldberg and Beth Jones of “Three Wishes: A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood” (Little, Brown & Co.) I’m 46, a mother of two, and I’m getting married to the father of my children in less [...]
With all of the critics carping on about women “delaying marriage” until their 40’s, it seems to me that something vital got lost in their consensus. Are single men lining up around the block like homeless mendicants at a matrimonial soup kitchen, just begging for a trip to the altar? Like Buddy Holly once said, [...]
When Hala Gorani, CNN anchor during my Mother’s Day interview, implied that our brave new maternal world—now teeming with first time mothers over 40—had outgrown ageism, I was taken aback. Not that I criticize her for it, but she was seeing the issue from her own perspective—that she had many mature mom friends. Surely, the [...]
It’s a Mother of an evolution! Join us as we launch the first online community dedicated to women having children after 40—A CHILD AFTER 40. When you find yourself surrounded by young “yummy mummies” or Stepford moms under 35—in the prenatal clinic or on the playground—you’ve now got a place to hang your bell bottoms [...]
Everyone loves a “good old dad”—the fondly revered patriarch, perched at the nucleus of the home hearth, regally dispensing wise saws like thin crusts of leftover bread. Of course, everyone’s supposed to receive them just like they were big luscious slices of rich cake. The yin for that yang, however, appears to be the “bad [...]
Pardons for being an older mother do, from time to time—in the form of a regal thumbs-up—get dispensed beneath the media spotlight in the Colosseum of public entertainment. A few weeks ago it was a grandma who gave birth to her grandson via surrogacy in Chicago, Illinois. This week, it’s a 53 year old new [...]
These days, having watched the original Star Trek series air on TV (Star Date: 1966—1969) carries about as much weight as witnessing man’s first step on the moon. I was there for both. From 5-to-8 years old, the whole notion of humanity’s technological brilliance was imprinted on my brain like that of a newborn gosling. [...]
By the time I conceived my second child at 44, I knew I would be afforded little opportunity to embrace the pregnancy experience with unrestricted joy. In fact, I gritted my teeth like Russel Casse (Randy Quaid) in Independence Day, before he rammed his fighter jet into the guts of a hostile alien ship and [...]
It appears that social bias regarding a woman giving birth later in life is based on whether she’s the grandma or the mom. When 61 year old Illinois resident, Kristine Casey, gave birth to her own grandson a few days ago, “there was not a dry eye in the crowded operating room,” doctors said. (Deborah [...]
They say falling in love is for the young. I heartily (pun intended) disagree. The whole notion of Love being a province where cherubic cupids take aim with arrows of outrageous infatuation at the innocent youth is an archetypical illusion. Love—true love—is for the old. Why? Because—far from sitting on the sidelines of meaningful relationships [...]
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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