Pandora's Clock

What is the right time to have a baby? And if starting a family means interrupting your career, cementing your relationship irrevocably, permanently changing your way of life - how does anyone decide the right time? This book examines the whole issue of reproduction and family planning, and argues that fertility education is as much of a necessity for adults as sex education is for children. Drawing on a number of real case histories, Maureen Freely and Celia Pyper consider contraception and the links between children, youth and death, and offer a revolutionary view on how to be as rational as possible about the biggest and perhaps the wildest decision we ever make.