Older Mothers

Are older mums selfish?

Michael Cook | 22 October 2011

An Australian obstetrician was heaped with scorn and ridicule earlier this month when he declared that women who deferred having children until their mid-30s were ''selfish and self-centred''. Barry Walters, of King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, said that they tended to have more medical problems and would be a burden on their children in their twilight years.

72 not out, and feeling broody

Michael Cook | 21 November 2010

Romanian woman considers a second child

Bulgarian psychiatrist, 62, has IVF twins

Jared Yee | 22 May 2010

Motherhood age cap debate in Bulgaria