James Smith’s Info Serv

That is the question in the hearts, minds, souls and ovaries of millions of women today, myself included. It seems there are as many reasons for waiting to have a family, as there are reasons for wanting to have a child in the first place.

If you’re struggling with the decision of motherhood, baby you’re not alone. Many women are waiting longer to have children, if at all, and they’re having fewer of them. 45% of all babies born in Canada (2002) were delivered by mothers aged 30 to 39. Twenty years ago, that figure was 23%.

As a 39 year-old widow, it seems the mother ship is about to set sail - without me on it. With choice, however, comes responsibility. If I were to have a baby at 40, the chance of the child having Down’s Syndrome is 1 in 100. At age 38, it would have been 1 in 170. At 32, it was 1 in 660.
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In this age, it is obviously very difficult to control a beginning to be teenager. Some of us are taking sex seriously to orient our children about. Some parents afraid even of having an access to talk their children about this until the axe hits the head.

As a journalist, I approached some parents about this matter a while back ago. I think it was about 28 years ago. Some of those parents who were my friends found out that their children read sex magazines and doing this entire tiny thing with themselves.

They were boys and girls and they had never spoken or consulted their parents about sex in an area where sex matters are still considered forbidden.

I encouraged them to talk it with their children in a very different way.

How?
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