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1 online resource |
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| Summary |
In this groundbreaking collection of essays, poems, and creative nonfiction, more than twenty-nine writers offer witty and incisive insight into the unique experience of being or having an older parent in today's world. By turns raw, funny, tender, and wise, these stories reshape our understanding of the social factors that impact later parenthood, honor the strength and resilience required to overcome countless challenges posed in healthcare and adoption settings, and relish in the many joys of a parent-child relationship, no matter what age. Writers, child development experts, and older parents themselves Vicki Breitbart and Nan Bauer-Maglin have curated a collection that truly affirms and destigmatizes the act of becoming a parent over 40, whether by choice or by chance. |
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Includes bibligraphical references. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Advance Praise for Tick Tock -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Why Did It Take So Long? -- We Can Wait, But Are We Paying Too High a Price? -- Out of the Closet and Out of Time -- OTM (Old, Tired Mommy): Not What I Planned -- Part II. Pregnancy and Birth after Forty -- My Road Trip to Fertility -- Old Mom -- The Terrible Math -- Mourning the Loss of Fertility -- A Phantasmagoria of Pregnancy and Birth beyond Forty -- Giving Birth after Fifty -- Part III. Does Age Matter if I Adopt? -- Growing Roots -- "La Llapa": A Father Again at Forty-Five |
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States of Mind -- 25% Pure Gold -- Too Old for Cartwheels: Reflections from an At-Risk Family -- From Grief to Joy -- Twins? Are You Crazy? -- Life in Balance -- Part IV. Parenting after Forty -- Never Too Old to Be a Father-Again -- "Who Is That?" Becoming a Bonus Mom at Age 45 -- Old Life, New Life, and Parenting in the In-Between -- My Grandmother, My Mother, Myself, and My Son -- His Old Man -- If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry -- What Is Hard? -- Being All the Things -- Better Late Than Never -- Two Poems -- Opening Up -- Part V. Building Community and Changing the Narrative |
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Finding Our Way Together -- The Single, Most Important Community -- Reparation -- Late-Onset Motherhood: Many Stories, One Radical Plot Change -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Notes |
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Parent and adult child.
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Aging parents.
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Older parents.
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Parenthood -- Literary collections.
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Older parents -- Literary collections.
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Aging parents. (OCoLC)fst00800360
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Parent and adult child. (OCoLC)fst01053304
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Electronic books.
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Breitbart, Vicki, editor.
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Maglin, Nan Bauer, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1948340453 9781948340458 (OCoLC)1243352038 |
| ISBN |
9781948340496 (electronic book) |
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1948340496 (electronic book) |
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