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050 00 $aHQ759.43$b.G74 2007
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100 1 $aGregory, Elizabeth.
245 10 $aReady :$bwhy women are embracing the new later motherhood /$cElizabeth Gregory.
260 $aNew York :$bBasic Books,$c℗♭2007.
300 $aix, 298 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 275-290) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : ready? -- 1. Waiting : the backstory -- Working mom, circa 1922 -- The Nexus of change -- Birth control, "the rich get richer and the poor get children" -- Education : "the neglected education of my fellow creatures is the grand source of the misery I deplore" -- 2. Ready : willing and able -- 3. Moms in the workplace : the benefits of age -- Higher wages -- The clout effect -- The benefits of age -- The trickle up -- Work/life balance and the flextime movement -- What is part time? -- Small-business moms -- Making work choices around family -- 4. Moms at home : when is a job not a job? -- What is a stay-at-home mom? -- The stay-at-home new late mom : what's the difference? -- Deciding to stay home -- Changing gears -- Stay-at-home moms and the clout effect -- Revaluing women's work -- 5. All in the family : changing the ways we live and love -- The new traditionalists -- Peer marriage -- The older woman -- Gay moms -- Divorce, new later motherhood style -- New late single moms -- Only children -- 6. Sarah laughed : who's fertile and how -- Progenitrix -- Ball of confusion -- What are my odds? -- Where did we get those odds? -- What about fertility tech? -- Counting up : who's fertile later? -- Non-age-based infertility -- Is infertility on the rise? -- Proactive fertility -- Miscarriage and multiples -- Fertility ethics -- How old is too old? -- Insurance -- Future tech -- 7. Adoption : expanding the borders of family -- The adoption options -- Domestic foster care -- Trans-racial adoption -- Private adoption -- International adoption -- Gay adoption -- 8. Fifty is the new thirty? : health, looks, evolution, and the new line of later moms -- Longer life expectancy -- Health issues -- Looking good -- Sandwiched : between elder care and kid care -- Sandwiched? The next generation -- Menopause -- Evolution now : grand/mothering -- Epilogue : readiness matters -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A. Who's in the study -- Appendix B. Work status data.
520 1 $a"In Ready, Elizabeth Gregory 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. Gregory 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, Gregory 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. Drawing on both the statistical evidence and the voices of the new later mothers themselves, Gregory delivers surprising and welcome news that will revolutionize the way we think about motherhood."--Jacket.
650 0 $aMiddle-aged mothers.
650 0 $aMotherhood.
650 0 $aWorking mothers.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aGregory, Elizabeth.$tReady.$dNew York : Basic Books, ℗♭2007$w(OCoLC)609224873
776 08 $iOnline version:$aGregory, Elizabeth.$tReady.$dNew York : Basic Books, ℗♭2007$w(OCoLC)630414311
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007021050.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0830/2007021050-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0830/2007021050-d.html
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