Older women are freezing their eggs as they scour the planet looking for the right man.
30th June 2010
Now Older Women are having the temerity to freeze their eggs as they scour the planet looking for, to paraphrase Saatchi & Saatchi’s rebranding of the V&A, An Ace Sperm Donation with Quite a Nice Man Attached. The 11-strong chain of CARE Fertility clinics has reported a rush of mournful OWs (in their thirties and forties, which doesn’t sound that O to me) putting motherhood on ice as they pursue the urban myth of a bloke their age who wants to settle down.
Marriage rates are declining, he suggests, because men are simply refusing to commit to “grown-up” relationships, and prefer to prolong their extended adolescence for as long as possible. Matters are exacerbated in Britain by the harsh reality of demographics; up to the age of 20, there are more male than female babies, children and teenagers in the population. Thereafter, the number of young men relative to young women generally decreases due to migration, until by the age of 31, women outnumber men. Overall, there are 31 million of us in the population, compared with 29.9 million of them.
And who could blame them?