This piece is written by Dr. Elizabeth Gregory and is her opinion, not necessarily that of The New Agenda.  Dr. Gregory was formerly a guest on The NewAgenda’s BlogTalkRadio Show, Chewing the Fat with Ophelia.  Dr. Gregory teaches at the University of Houston and is the author of Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood (Basic Books).
Motherhood changed utterly on the day after Mother’s Day 1960. That’s when the FDA approved the birth control pill for general use, and women at long last could become mothers by …

Elizabeth Gregory teaches at the University of Houston and blogs on motherhood, birth timing, and the economics of women’s work at www.readymoms.com. She will be the guest on Chewing the Fat with Ophelia on Monday, March 23 at 10pm EST.
In the twentieth century two enormous framework changes radically altered the experience of being human:

Innovations in medicine and public health mean that first worlders today can expect to live an average 30 years longer in good health than did their counterparts a hundred years ago, and sometimes longer. …