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A paper which considers the various issues surrounding older women's fertility, with particular reference to changing lifestyles, social attitudes, IVF and late maternity.
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womens fertility is one which has caused considerable debate and even controversy in the UK, both as exemplifying changing patterns in womens reproductive lives and in terms of more specific
issues such as IVF and fertility treatment. For example, one could assert that the debate is very much a contemporary issue. In the past, it was usual for women to
begin their reproductive lives early, often before the age of twenty, and to have completed their families by the point at which some women today are considering starting them. Social
and religious convention were instrumental in decreeing that women should bear and raise children, whether or not they also worked outside the home, and apart from the small percentage of
infertile women who wanted children and were not able to conceive, it was far more common for women to look for ways of preventing pregnancy and limiting their families than
for them to defer pregnancy until later in life. Infertility was therefore a matter for concern primarily amongst younger, rather than older women.
However, socio-economic and political changes in the latter part of the twentieth century meant that women now had a
much wider range of lifestyle choices, and were no longer automatically expected to marry young and embark on a primarily domestic life which invariably involved child bearing. The introduction of
more reliable methods of contraception, coupled with a greater degree of sexual freedom and the rejection of traditional marriage structures and gender roles, also allowed them to break from the
traditional pattern and opt for much smaller families, single-parent lifestyles, deferred motherhood or a rejection of parenting altogether. There was also an increasing awareness that children born to older parents
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