WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2013
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Women in their late thirties shouldn’t be as anxious about their prospects of having a baby as is commonly assumed, psychologist Jean Twenge argues. Tim Harford finds fertility experts agree. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the short edition of More or Less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:09.0 | The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use |
| 0:13.0 | go to BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:23.0 | the programme which smites the dragon of dodgy data |
| 0:26.0 | with a shining sword of statistical straight talking. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Tim Hartford. |
| 0:31.0 | The comedian Tina Fey has been looking at her magazine collection. |
| 0:35.0 | The cover story of New York magazine this week is Baby Panic. |
| 0:39.0 | This goes perfectly with the other magazines on my coffee table. |
| 0:43.0 | Where are the babies? Why haven't you had a baby? |
| 0:45.0 | And for God's sake, have a baby. |
| 0:47.0 | That's from the US show Saturday Night Live back in 2002. |
| 0:51.0 | It is of course possible that some of those headlines weren't genuine, |
| 0:55.0 | but this one is. |
| 0:56.0 | Have babies by age 35 say experts. |
| 0:59.0 | And so is this one. |
| 1:00.0 | Pregnancy after 35 is like an Iron Man challenge. |
| 1:04.0 | Let me tell you the story of Jean Twengey, |
| 1:07.0 | a professor of psychology at San Diego University. |
| 1:10.0 | Back when that edition of Saturday Night Live went out, |
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