AARP : BABY BOOMERS WHO NEVER MARRIED and SOCIAL SUPPORT

CHILDLESS WOMEN FUTURE CARE - SALLY ABRAHMS link to article

EXCERPT : As boomers care for their parents, or at least watch their friends in the throes, those with no children often wonder, “who will be there for me when I need help?”

With one in three boomers never married and some wed without kids, that’s a big question. Typically, it’s the spouse who does much of the caregiving, but with the growing rate of late-life divorce–saying “see ya, partner” after 20+ years of marriage—and women outliving men, that source of support may not be available.

So Marcy Cole, a Los Angeles social worker, conceived of an idea: to create a website for women childless by choice or circumstance. (The idea is that even if you don’t have your own child, you are a mother to someone—a sibling or other relative or friend, perhaps.)