* Timely yet underrepresented topic. Voices of parents over the age of 40 are largely missing from parenting narratives, yet the number of people choosing older parenthood is on the rise, as marked by public figures like Senator Tammy Duckworth and Viola Davis. * Thirty-two contributors, with original material by: NYT-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo, award-winning author Adam Berlin, podcast producer and host Barbara Herel, retired journalist Linda Wright Moore, founder and executive director of The Democracy Center Jim Shultz, and more. * Includes diverse voices. Contributors represent a…mehr
* Timely yet underrepresented topic. Voices of parents over the age of 40 are largely missing from parenting narratives, yet the number of people choosing older parenthood is on the rise, as marked by public figures like Senator Tammy Duckworth and Viola Davis. * Thirty-two contributors, with original material by: NYT-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo, award-winning author Adam Berlin, podcast producer and host Barbara Herel, retired journalist Linda Wright Moore, founder and executive director of The Democracy Center Jim Shultz, and more. * Includes diverse voices. Contributors represent a wide range of races, ethnicities, ages, genders, sexual orientations, and experiences.
Vicki Breitbart holds an MSW from NYU, an MS from Bank Street, and an EdD from Teachers College, and has been a writer and educator for more than forty years. Throughout her career, she has worked extensively with young children, parents, and other educators. She is the author of The Day Care Book and Open for Children, as well as numerous academic articles on women's issues, and the producer of documentaries Sugar and Spice and Open for Children. She is the parent to a 43-year-old son and a 19-year-old daughter, who she adopted when she was 53. Nan Bauer-Maglin worked at City University of New York for almost forty years as a professor and administrator. She is the editor of Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between. She is the editor of Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women Talk about the End of (Mostly) Long-term Relationships and the coeditor of Women and Stepfamilies: Voices of Anger and Love; "Bad Girls/Good Girls": Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties; Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide; and Final Acts: Death, Dying and the Choices We Make . In 1977, she adopted a baby when she was 35 (which was considered old then).
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Introduction PART I. Why Did It Take So Long? * We Can Wait, But Are We Paying Too High a Price? by Salma Abdelnour Gilman * Out of the Closet and Out of Time by Laura Davis * OTM (Old, Tired Mommy): Not What I Planned by Linda Wright Moore PART II. Pregnancy and Birth After 40 * My Road Trip to Fertility by Martine Guay * Old Mom by Sarah Dougher * The Terrible Math by Elline Lipkin * Mourning the Loss of Fertility by Linda Corman * A Phantasmagoria of Pregnancy and Birth beyond Forty by Julia Henderson * Giving Birth after Fifty by Phyllis Cox PART III. Does Age Matter If I Adopt? * Growing Roots by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser * "La Llapa": A Father Again at Forty-Five by Jim Shultz * States of Mind by Judith Ugelow Blak * 25% Pure Gold by Barbara Herel * Too Old for Cartwheels: Reflections from an At-Risk Family by Julie Buckner Armstrong * From Grief to Joy by Vicki Breitbart * Twins? Are You Crazy? by Pamela Pitman Brown * Life in Balance by Laura Broadwell PART IV. Parenting After Forty * Never Too Old to Be a Father-Again by Robert Bence * "Who Is That?" Becoming a Bonus Mom at Age 45 by Paige Averett * Old Life, New Life, and Parenting in the In-Between by Erik Malewski * My Grandmother, My Mother, Myself, and My Son by Jean Y. Leung * His Old Man by Adam Berlin * If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry by Elizabeth Newman * What Is Hard? by Catherine Arnst * Being All the Things by Katherine C. Rand * Better Late Than Never by Daniel E. Hood * Two Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo * Opening Up by Oliver Ardill-Young PART V. Building Community and Changing the Narrative * Finding Our Way Together by Sara Elinoff Acker * The Single, Most Important Community by Alia R. Tyner-Mullings * Reparation by Susan Ardill * Late-Onset Motherhood: Many Stories, One Radical Plot Change by Elizabeth Gregory Acknowledgments About the Contributors Notes
Introduction PART I. Why Did It Take So Long? * We Can Wait, But Are We Paying Too High a Price? by Salma Abdelnour Gilman * Out of the Closet and Out of Time by Laura Davis * OTM (Old, Tired Mommy): Not What I Planned by Linda Wright Moore PART II. Pregnancy and Birth After 40 * My Road Trip to Fertility by Martine Guay * Old Mom by Sarah Dougher * The Terrible Math by Elline Lipkin * Mourning the Loss of Fertility by Linda Corman * A Phantasmagoria of Pregnancy and Birth beyond Forty by Julia Henderson * Giving Birth after Fifty by Phyllis Cox PART III. Does Age Matter If I Adopt? * Growing Roots by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser * "La Llapa": A Father Again at Forty-Five by Jim Shultz * States of Mind by Judith Ugelow Blak * 25% Pure Gold by Barbara Herel * Too Old for Cartwheels: Reflections from an At-Risk Family by Julie Buckner Armstrong * From Grief to Joy by Vicki Breitbart * Twins? Are You Crazy? by Pamela Pitman Brown * Life in Balance by Laura Broadwell PART IV. Parenting After Forty * Never Too Old to Be a Father-Again by Robert Bence * "Who Is That?" Becoming a Bonus Mom at Age 45 by Paige Averett * Old Life, New Life, and Parenting in the In-Between by Erik Malewski * My Grandmother, My Mother, Myself, and My Son by Jean Y. Leung * His Old Man by Adam Berlin * If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry by Elizabeth Newman * What Is Hard? by Catherine Arnst * Being All the Things by Katherine C. Rand * Better Late Than Never by Daniel E. Hood * Two Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo * Opening Up by Oliver Ardill-Young PART V. Building Community and Changing the Narrative * Finding Our Way Together by Sara Elinoff Acker * The Single, Most Important Community by Alia R. Tyner-Mullings * Reparation by Susan Ardill * Late-Onset Motherhood: Many Stories, One Radical Plot Change by Elizabeth Gregory Acknowledgments About the Contributors Notes
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