December 12, 2012

Older Parenthood Will Upend American Society

Judith Shulevitz, The New Republic


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OVER THE PAST HALF CENTURY, parenthood has undergone a change so simple yet so profound we are only beginning to grasp the enormity of its implications. It is that we have our children much later than we used to.

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TAGGED: Parenting, reproductive technology, reproduction

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