Lessons of LaterinLife Fatherhood

News Source : The New Yorker
News Summary
- Maternal age has been a subject of fixation since the Biblical birth of Sarah
- The age of fathers in the U
- S
- has generally been a lesser concern, but the age of mothers has been more of a concern
- A therapist friend once told me that people frequently strive to become their parents or their unparents
Fortynine years ago, on what I recall as a Saturday morning when I was six and my father was fiftysix, I barged into the bathroom, as was my habit, and witnessed a scene that both bewildered and fa [+19974 chars]