I wrote this essay for Mondoweiss during the Gaza siege in May 2021. I felt panicky the morning it went live on Mondoweiss’s homepage—it’s been a while since I’ve ventured into the personal-and-political moshpit—but the reactions I’ve gotten to the piece have been deeply moving, edifying, thought-provoking and more. Here goes.
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Starting a family at “advanced maternal age”? Hate that term as much as we do?
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We’ve said it before but here we go again: Women and men know surprisingly little about how our bodies work, procreatively speaking, beyond the basics. Along the way we tend to pick up a few more clues than we got in our first awkward parent or sibling-led convo about the birds and bees . But not that many more clues.
Unless we’re medical professionals or biologists, chances are we’re out of luck.
As one study pointed out, less than half of American women and even fewer men who recently graduated from college have any concept of when fertility might start to decline. Shocking? Yes. It should be.
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