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标题：The rise of single parents by choice
Navigating work and family brings particular pressures for those deciding to have children alone

正文：They call it a five-to-midnight thing, says Annabel Dearing, senior legal counsel at EnBW, an energy company based in south-west Germany. As she turned 39, Dearing, then single, realised time was running out to have a child. She was working in Geneva in a commodity trading house and was “busy, busy, busy,” she says. “I always worked hard and played hard and travelled a lot . . . But I never really felt like I had a purpose.” Then a friend suggested she have a baby. In 2017, aged 43, Dearing joined the ranks of single parents by choice.

知识点：five-to-midnight (n.) /faɪv tə ˈmɪdnaɪt/
a metaphor for a situation where time is running out. 时间紧迫；临近截止
e.g. The doctor called it a five-to-midnight situation for the patient's treatment. 医生称患者的治疗已是刻不容缓。

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