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Too Old to be a Mum?

With no legal age limits on IVF treatment and biological boundaries being pushed ever further, how do we decide how old is just too old to be a new Mum?

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Radovan Karadzic is on trial in the Hague, indicted for war crimes during the Bosnian conflict of the ‘90s. These crimes included the army’s systematic rape of 20,000 women and children, which continues to have repercussions in the form of stigma, poverty, sickness, shame, and - for those women who bore children AND kept them - the added burden of teenagers asking difficult questions about their identity.

Too Old to be a Mum?

BBC1
Jan 2010

Women old enough to be grandmothers are having babies. 59 year old Essex mum Susan Tollefsen has a one year old. Can she squeeze in another baby before her 60th?

At 63, Lauren Cohen is a working mum with three children – all under five. Both Susan and Lauren represent a growing number of women around the world defying nature. With no legal age limits on IVF treatment and biological boundaries being pushed ever further, how do we decide what age is just too old to be a new mum?

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Reviews:

"The film tiptoed through the ethical eggshells with an equanimity that did its makers proud"

"a perfect subject for a television documentary"

The Telegraph

"That rare programme that leaves you with your mouth hanging slightly open"

"It was to this film's great credit that it never presented any of this as an aid to making your mind up"

The Guardian

"The programme will probably keep radio phone-in lines busy today on the rights and wrongs of wrinkly parents"

The Times

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