It's Time to Stop This Hypocrisy Over Older Mums

Evening Standard - London › May 20, 2009

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RATHER like X Factor surprise Susan Boyle, Elizabeth Adeney is currently experiencing her 15 minutes of fame as she becomes Britain's oldest mother at 66. Having undergone IVF treatment using a donor egg, she is now eight months into her pregnancy.

Boyle was written off before she'd even opened her mouth for her looks and age. There is clearly a huge amount of age-related prejudice against women and this is nowhere more apparent than in older mothers. Certainly influenced by some crustier members of the medical establishment tut-tutting over the possible risks to mother and baby of conceiving later in life, public intolerance has increased and led to comments being posted on blogs that older mothers, such as Adeney, are "selfish", "irresponsible" and "harmful".

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It's Time to Stop This Hypocrisy Over Older Mums

When men become fathers at a ripe old age they a...

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