Help - need your quick thoughts on why being a parenting is better now than it was 20 years ago.... Please!

[JustineMumsnet]

Have to send Telegraph something in next 15 mins

Any thoughts? (apart from Mumsnet that is )

Employers more willing to engage in flexible working arrangements.

Good point Carmenere. Many more women are proving that it is possible (medically at least) to start having children in their late 30s plus withuut being regarded as a freak. Same goes for assisted pregnancy - it's more accepted now (and more widely available)

Txs v much people for doing my homework - only had a tiny space for comment so won't do you justice of course -- tomorrow's torygraph

it's in response to Jack Straw saying life's much better than it was in general (not just for parents)

I will make an extra effort to look at it in my local coffee shop in the am

I'll ask my my mum (former life-long Guardian reader) to look in her copy too.