Motherhood At Midlife

Adopting At MidLife: Finding An Agency

10.30.2008

by Liz of Inventing My Life On Saturday I went to an information session for Wide Horizons for Children, an adoption agency; today I filled out their registration form and will drop it in the mail on Monday. One step down, about a thousand left to go! I’ve been collecting information on agencies for about [...]

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Adopting At MidLife: The Decision

10.10.2008

by Liz of Inventing My Life I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about nature vs. nurture, genetics vs. environment. When I first started thinking seriously about becoming a single mother, I was really leaning more toward getting pregnant on my own through donor sperm. For one thing, I thought I wouldn’t be able [...]

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Motherhood At MidLife

10.10.2008

I’m not talking about mothering at midlife, raising the kids that you had when you were in your twenties or thirties.  I’m talking about becoming a mother at midlife.  According to Newsweek, the number of women over forty who have given birth has doubled in the past twenty years.  Well, yes, of course, the advances [...]

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Whose Day Is It, Really?

05.12.2008

by Margaret Andrews, Nanny Goats in Panties I was a freshman in high school when I passed out in class, my head bonking against a desk in the next aisle over. Rather than letting me lay on the floor to let the blood return to my head, my teacher insisted I go to the nurse’s [...]

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