In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, published in 1932, only the savages, behaving like animals, became pregnant. “Normal” people had babies genetically designed, cloned and gestated in artificial wombs, the age of the mother and father irrelevant to the process.
In the real world, in 2018, we now have technological breakthroughs such as IVF, and the growth of the “mother machine” industry offers wombs for rent and “ovum donors” for those with the money to spend. This means that if a woman wants a baby, alone or with a partner, now, as in fiction, age is no barrier.
Two of the biggest obstacles barring the route to motherhood are the antiquated world of work and the cost of childcare
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