Letter: We Need to Support Working Families
A reader weighs in on why some women delay starting a family.
Older Moms Are an Elite Club
In May, Caroline Kitchener explored the advantages and disadvantages for mothers who wait until midlife to have kids.
Your recent article seeks to warn women offplanning for kids at 40+, emphasizing the cost and unreliability of fertility treatments. Characterizing moms at 40+ as “elite” (because they tend to be in stable of delay, not just an effect of preexistent privilege. It concludes by worrying that inequality will increase if later kids are too much better off!
