Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood

by Elizabeth Gregory

Book Overview

Over the past three decades, skyrocketing numbers of women have chosen to start their families in their late thirties and early forties. In 2005, ten times as many women had their first child between the ages of 35 and 39 as in 1975, and thirteen times as many had their first between 40 and 44. Women now have the option to define for themselves when they're ready for family, rather than sticking to a schedule set by social convention. As a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465031587
• ISBN13: 9780465031580
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher