The rump of swingers are in their 40s and 50s while mid-life daters prowl bars and
small-ads hoping to unearth people. Pregnancy in the over-40s has grown 40 per cent
in the past 10 years: think Madonna and Cherie Blair.

How wonderful to find that fortysomethings are in society's vanguard. Research shows
that people between 40 and 50 are more active and decisive that the supposedly
dynamic youth generation beneath and are more willing to accept change in all areas of
lives: jobs, marriages, appearances, diets, lifestyle. As we get older we become more
adventurous, not less. We enact many more major life events: marriages, divorces,
cohabitations, house and job relocations. Our lifestyles have become more flexible.

We hate being called middle-aged and instead refer to ua as "middle youth". Life begins
at 50. We are only at the distant approaches to the real life now. We are staying
younger for longer. We are as up for health, fitness, clubbing, long-haul travel,
according to research, as that 15 to 24-year-olds. We need fun. The 40s is the age
when we try something new or do something we alwayes wanted to. We are the
greatest symbol of freeedom!