'One day it will happen to you’: My mother tried to warn me about menopause ^59%

CBC Television - By Jennifer Whalen - 1/5/2026, 5:16 PM

Biased Writer Voice 29.4% - Negativity Bias 19% - Appeal to Emotion 16%

One day when I was 16, my mother came into my room and plopped down a newsletter called A Friend Indeed, by Canadian health educator Janine O’Leary Cobb. “It’s about menopause,” she said. “You should read it.” It was a natural evolution for us. When I was eight, she gave me Where Did I Come From?, a book that explained the facts of life... more