Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood

by Elizabeth Gregory

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465027857
• ISBN13: 9780465027859
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

I will remember this book when I think of having kids

Although I am not a mother, I am a fan of the English department at University of Houston (my alma mater), go coogs! I found this book to be a delightful, realistic outlook on the many roles and responsibilities of women in the United States. As a child raised by a single mother, I understand how having an older, educated mother can better enable one's children to be better prepared for the world's obstacles. What a wonderful read! My friends are buying this book!

we came a long way ... then, a baby!

I'm delighted to see a book on this topic with all the anecdotal evidence in the world that yes, sometimes late-in-life moms do have an edge over younger ones--more settled, wiser, richer, been there done that and everything else we needed to do to feel complete--except the biggie--motherhood. We may get gray hair sooner and emabarass our teens when the clerk at Abercrombie's thinks we're a grandparent not the parent, but I'm living it and loving it. Gregory gives compelling proof that this choice is not the huge risk it is often perceived to be. Our kids have kept us young(er) and more physically and mentally active than we might otherwise be had we decided that we had missed the boat. The book was also quite readable and not quite as academic a treatise as I had anticipated.