Professional and financial pressures of childbearing put women off becoming mothers until later

[Caligula]

the bleedin' obvious

How lucky we have researchers to tell us this.

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

hmmmm. haven't read it - waiting for the link to come up but can see where it's from. Surely not? the Observer? on parenting? stating teh obvious?

[Caligula]

Yes basically, they're saying that the penalties of motherhood are so high, that women are choosing to delay it or not do it at all and that it's not just a free choice lifestyle option.

Well, dur. Where have they been for the last twenty years?

[MarsOnLife]

probably researched by men caligula... and you know how hard it is for them!

[mommie]

what puts us older mothers off motherhood at a younger age is the lack of mature and suitable men crossing our paths earlier in life. They are too busy in Smollensky's to want to talk buggies.

[RachD]

Oh I'm sure Gordon Brown will just allocate 30 billion of his budget, to solve this problem - yeah right !

[expatinscotland]

That's another thing I'm chasing up, in addition to hospitals where women actually have epidurals on demand (not waiting hours and hours only to be told, 'Sorry, there's no anaesthetist available.'): where can I get paid big bucks to state the obvious and call it 'research'.