Now, with two-income families and women working, there are more divorces and remarriages at midlife. Men who have devoted their younger lives to careers now begin again in their 40s and 50s, often with younger women. It s a pattern in all major cities women, married to older men, having a first child at 40. There are definite statistics to support the fact of delayed childbearing, says Anne Hendershott, associate professor of sociology at the University of San Diego. And the list of marriageable partners for middle-aged women is smaller.
Men can marry younger women that s socially acceptable.
But so far, not the other way around. Based on increasing birthrates to older men between 1980 and 1991, experts guess that the number of middle-aged fathers in the early 1990s is well over 400,000, up a third over the preceding decade. If a wife works, a nanny often goes on the payroll. Unless public schools improve, count on heavier costs during pre-college years. 77 Julia Laurette 78 Jefferson Salvini Purdon, a general partner at Shelter Cove Marina, was 1991 commodore of the San Diego Yacht Club.