Biological Clock

  • "Their 40s just seemed to sneak up on them"

    The L.A. Times is more thoughtful than most about why women delay childbearing. But what about men?
    By Lynn Harris December 5, 2007

  • I got pregnant with Plan B -- now I need a Plan C!

    We want kids but we're not sure we're ready yet -- should we go for it, or abort?
    By Cary Tennis March 14, 2007

  • Wanted: One male, dry-witted, for baby making

    Must be fertile, with tongue like Dorothy Parker.
    By Cary Tennis February 27, 2007

  • The "Daddy dilemma," one year later

    Salon catches up with a "Maybe Baby" contributor and his fiancee, to find out if they are still on the fence about starting a family.
    By Lori Leibovich April 7, 2006

  • The baby panic

    Sylvia Ann Hewlett says young women should start husband-hunting in their 20s if they don't want to end up childless and sad. But she's as clueless about balancing work and family as the career-first feminists she decries.
    By Joan Walsh April 23, 2002

  • A woman's place

    It's been 12 years since "Backlash" -- it must be time to scare women into domestic submission again.
    By Michelle Goldberg April 23, 2002

  • "Beat the Biological Clock"

    I've seen the future and it is a televised reproductive hootenanny.
    By Dorothy Nixon January 28, 2000

  • Breed old, die late and leave a beautiful brain

    Afraid that motherhood has made you old and boring? New studies show that midlife mothers live longer and have more brain cells.
    By Michele Y. Pridmore-Brown March 24, 1999

  • No baby on board

    Why being an environmentalist prevents me from being a mom
    By Pagan Kennedy August 17, 1998

  • Mothers who think too much

    Still convinced that the time you forgot to hold your breath while pumping gas will cause irreparable damage to your unborn child?
    By Anne S. Lewis June 24, 1998

  • Twisted sisters

    How is it that women a few years apart in age can be light years away from each other in their attitudes toward sex?
    By Courtney Weaver February 25, 1998

  • Baby hunger

    A young woman with big dreams for her future confronts the confusing and unexpected ticking of her biological clock
    By Heather Chaplin February 23, 1998

  • The Awful Truth: Let it breed?

    Cintra Wilson, who has always regarded babies as life-ravaging monstrosities, starts thinking about the unthinkable.
    By Cintra Wilson December 16, 1997
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