Issue #22: Timelines, settling down and the fear of falling behind

Can you be late to your own life?

By the time my mother entered her thirties, she was married with two children, renovating a family home in The Wirral, a 40 minute drive from where she grew up. While the typical timeline has shifted since then – between 1991, when I was born, and 2021, the average age for a woman to have a first child increased from 27.7 to 30.9 – the format has not. I…