Overaged mothers

There is a BBC report today Delaying babies 'defies nature' on an article published in the British Medical Journal, warning women who want to 'have it all' - career, status, family, etc. - not to "leave it too late" when it comes to babies.

What a bonne maman advice. This is what happens when obstetricians try to be sociologists, like cats trying to bark.

The rising average age of pregnant women is a result of a whole range of social changes. Putting the whole thing on the shoulders of the stereotyped egocentric "modern women", well, is at best insensitive, if not male chauvinest (a male chauvinist doesn't have to be male, in this case it is a female).

Here are the BBC-online readers respones to the report

Categories: Culture, Women