The joy of being a granny
Dec 15, 2021
3 minutes
‘Never have children – always have grandchildren,’ was one of Gore Vidal’s cynical, gnomic utterances.
Being a flamboyant, gay guy, Gore wasn’t faced with the choice. Yet the advice might be useful to the numbers of fretful women I hear agonising over whether to become mothers or not.
Motherhood is rather unpopular these days – the British fertility rate is at its lowest since 1938. The thirtyish and fortyish generation debate with themselves over whether the worry, trouble, expense
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