by snowydays | Jun 3, 2015 | Feminism, News and Views from Fay Weldon, Society
The Daily Mail asked me earlier this week, I said – “Since ‘God moves in a mysterious way’, I am surprised more men don’t think the Deity is female.” I don’t know how one deals with such a question, but my husband had a go in his song In the Name of the Mother,...
by snowydays | May 28, 2015 | Feminism, News and Views from Fay Weldon, Society
Life no longer begins at 40, more’s the pity. Once when a woman reached that age her children would be grown, and she’d have spare time available to think about her looks and her own pleasure and interests. She was expected to be married and a mother by the age of 23...
by snowydays | Oct 20, 2014 | Families, News and Views from Fay Weldon
The new young, by which I mean those of the social media generations, seem to fear physical contact. They prefer not to sit close on the family sofa to watch TV: they’d rather watch in their rooms, on tablets, iphones, laptops, or failing all else their mobile. They...
by snowydays | Sep 24, 2014 | News and Views from Fay Weldon
A recent Bookseller survey suggests there’s now a different kind of reader coming over the horizon. Ninety percent of book-buyers read digital books – not exclusively, but they do own a Kindle or similar device (Kindle predominates.) The books which sell best in...
by snowydays | Jul 28, 2014 | Childbirth, Families, Feminism
The UK’s total fertility rate is 1.82, way below replacement rate of 2.1. Our population is shrinking. Not so fast as in some other European countries, though, where the overall rate is 1.59. Today’s average household size in the UK is 2.3 persons. 50 years ago it was...
