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.

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?

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?

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

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.

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

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'.