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What do you do when the person you’re in love with doesn’t want a baby – and you do? Nell Frizzell © Provided by The Independent We have never had a name for the maelstrom of hormones, social expectation, maternal hunger and fertility anxiety that smacks into so many women like a train towards the end of their twenties and thirties. Unlike adolescence, the terrible twos or the mid-life crisis, we have never defined this period with a name, nor sketched out the biological...

The Panic Years by Nell Frizzell describes how women decide whether or not to have children. Frizzells memoir of her own five panic years will strike a chord with many.

Social pressure to procreate turns women’s late 20s and early 30s into 'panic years' – a period of impossible turmoil and questioning

How I realised being child-free was for me Credit: ZOE SAVITZ The debate about school closures was the first topic of 2021 to set social media alight. Some users accused parents who wanted to send their children back of selfishness; others claimed they’d keep their children at home whether schools were open or not. But there was one aspect of the debate everyone seemed to agree on: as one tweeter in my feed bluntly put it, ‘People who don’t have kids should shut the f—k up.’ Just d...

In the age of online dating and #MeToo, does a 20th-century singletons diary still speak to us? Based on Jane Austens novel Pride And Prejudice, Bridget Joness Diary evolved from author Helen Fieldings Independent newspaper columns, which charted the adventures of the 30-something Chardonnay-swilling singleton. Millions of copies have been sold globally, spawning three further books and three film adaptations starring Renee Zellweger as Bridget and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy. Next month se...

Love her or loathe her, Bridget Jones is here to stay. Fans of, and newcomers to, the 30-something chardonnay-swilling singleton can shortly bag a 25th anniversary edition of Bridget Joness Diary, with added extracts from author Helen Fieldings early journalism and musings about Bridget Jones in the 21st century. Millions of copies of the original, based on Jane Austens novel Pride And Prejudice and evolved from Fieldings columns in The Independent newspaper, have been sold globally, spaw...

As a new edition of the book is released, Mariella Frostrup and others look at whether the classic character is still relatable in todays world