Cari Rosen was 43 and a quarter
Cari Rosen, a former television executive from north London who now works part-time for the website Gransnet, was “43 and a quarter” when she gave birth to her daughter, now three. She says the economics of having a child later in life have made it easier to put the family first.
“A lot of my friends felt under pressure to go back to work full-time when their kids were young, but being older I didn’t – partly because at my age I have more financial security, and partly because I feel less pressure to prove myself career-wise.”
Ms Rosen, now 46, dismisses those who criticize later-life parenthood. “I didn’t meet someone I wanted a child with until I was 39. Before that, the question was: ‘Do you have a child with someone you don’t want to spend the rest of your life with – or do you cross your fingers that you will meet the right person?’ People say it’s selfish, but it seems to me more selfish to bring a child into a relationship that is not right. I think some women do make that compromise.”
This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on Telegraph.co.uk
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Originally posted on March 4, 2012.
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