A story framed around the fact that a woman had her first child naturally at age 50 is not news.
Frankly, I could not care less. I mean, that's wonderful - really, it is. For her and her husband and their family. Not for the entirety of Australia. I mean, women are becoming more and more able to naturally have children later in life. We see so many examples of older woman having babies both naturally and through fertility help services, I really don't think that it's major, breaking news.
Just look: it happened last year too.
In fact, below are some findings from the Australian Institute of Family Studies:
"Australian women are having children later. The median age at which women have their first baby was 27.3 years of age in 2000. Current teenage fertility is the lowest since 1921."
This is basically just in keeping with my last post.
50 Australian troops died in Australia on Wednesday. The whole Baden Clay case broke out on Wednesday, yet a 50 year old pregnancy is still number one on Today Tonight's headlines?
Wow. What has Australia's journalism industry come to?
Clearly just a fertile breeding ground (pun intended) for feel-good and human interest stories.
I hope we can change this.
xoxo
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