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• Older Moms Do It Better

  If you follow this sort of thing, you know that older moms have been lambasted in the media lately because of the drop in fertility and the fact that they have a higher risk of birth defects and miscarriage, blah blah blah. There's been some members of the medical community and a couple of female columnists exhorting women to stop waiting so long to have kids, saying ladies should maybe settle for a less-than-great mate in order to spawn early and safely or risk being alone and childless. Those wicked older moms. Why, a group of mothers hasn't been this villified since...um, single moms? Lowri Turner is mad and she isn't gonna take this crap anymore. She argues... Read More... Posted Feb 22 2008, 03:31 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: fertility, men, sexism, divorce attorneys, single moms, daily mail, older moms, middle age, career, teen mothers, selfish, lowri turner

• Getting Old Really Is Depressing; Being Old, Not So Much

  Like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally, I've been dreading turning 40 - which, although not imminent, will happen, as Sally wails, "Someday!" Apparently, I'm not alone.  A new study conducted by British and American researchers and published in Social Science and Medicine has confirmed that, across the globe, depression is most common in men and women in their forties.  Even more depressing is that the scientists refer to this period as "middle age."   Read More... Posted Jan 30 2008, 09:33 AM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with no comments Filed under: depression, middle age, Social Science and Medicine