Why are women assumed abnormal if they don’t feel the urge to procreate? And why should females past 30 justify their decision not to pass on their genes? Claire Rees speaks to an author who wrote a novel about the stigma she faces being a childless 48-year-old by choice, and hears from a woman who explains why other mums make her realise she’s right to never want to start a family...
VICTORIA Beckham has just given birth to her fourth, and the world is on baby watch for the moment the Duchess of Cambridge announces she’s expecting an heir.
It’s enough to make you broody or else there’s something wrong with you, right?
The first question most newlywed wives are asked starts with ‘when’ and ends with ‘the patter of tiny feet’, but what if the answer to that question is, “never, out of choice” ?
Novelist Sonja Lewis knows this predicament, she is a 48-year-old who decided she didn’t want children and in a society she says is obsessed with procreation, it’s not a decision those around her have always taken so well.
Her new book, The Barrenness, tells the story of a 39-year-old advised by a childless aunt to start a family or “see your womanhood fade” and now she says she is campaigning to encourage women who feel, as she does, that motherhood isn’t for them.
For full article: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/showbiz/2011/07/12/why-having-a-child-is-just-not-for-us-91466-29033734/#ixzz1SSzhM8va
Sonja Lewis’ novel, The Barrenness, is out now on Prymus Publications and available at Amazon.
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