They also found that whilst just about everyone welcomed the introduction of reproductive choice into their lives very few had had an easy time with the problems and dilemmas choice has actually created.

PANDORA’S CLOCK sets out to ease the decision we have to make by breaking down the taboos and promoting a respectful understanding of fertility, its fallibility and its finiteness.

Maureen Freely and Dr Celia Pyper examine the issues and emotions surrounding family planning, pregnancy, parenthood, genetic screening, abortion, infertility, how we manage regrets and the links between children, youth and death, giving an informed, revolutionary view on how to be as balanced as possible about the biggest, perhaps widest decision we may ever make.

If starting a family means putting your career on hold, cementing your relationship, permanently changing your way of life, in other words turning your world upside down, how does anyone decide the right time?

This book examines the whole issue of reproduction and family planning, arguing that fertility education is as much of a necessity for adults as sex education is for children.

What we need is a respectful understanding of fertility, its fallibility and its finiteness, if we are to make properly informed choices.

In their book Maureen Freely and Celia Pyper have considered contraception, and the links betwelen children, youth and death, they and offer an informed, revolutionary view on how to be as rational as possible about the biggest, perhaps wildest decision we may ever make.