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who makes it her Plan A to be manufacturing one at that age?

Good question.

frittering away my 20s with a man I didn't plan to have children with, and wasting more years in my thirties with a man who wasn't sure he even wanted children. It took away the punishing pressure to find a mate and helped me find love at 42.

I'm reminded of an NPR piece (probably "All Things Considered") I listened to years back. They were interviewing a single woman in her low 40s who had adopted a child. She described how she had wanted a child but "none of her relationships worked out blah blah blah.*" All the while listening I was struck by how self-centered that woman sounded.

Reading this woman's story I get the same impression.

I'm reminded of an NPR piece (probably "All Things Considered") I listened to years back. They were interviewing a single woman in her low 40s who had adopted a child. She described how she had wanted a child but "none of her relationships worked out blah blah blah.*" All the while listening I was struck by how self-centered that woman sounded.

I think that you have hit the nail right on the thumb.

I often recall that graphic!

I’m happy that the author found love at 42, but is she prepared for the effort it’s going to take to keep love through having her hormones trashed by (probably) multiple trials and failures of IVF during perimenopause, as well as aging, and perhaps never having a living child?

Or the trials of late-life parenthood? It’s not easy, even when you have a houseful of other children to help retrieve Pink Pet from her triumphant perch on top of the refrigerator? Or what if you get the one (like my 9th, when I was “only” 42), who wakes up every two hours?

Maybe her real life will fit her dream from this point on. I suppose it does for someone ...

Yes and it is because she was self centered and date men of the same type that she ended up alone and childless forced to adopt. Only a foolish man or an equally ego driven man would marry many of these professional women who are so “intelligent” that they couldn’t find time to do the one thing that according to their secular God Darwin indicates a successful life, reproduce. They are brainwashed filled with so much feminist man hating crap that even if there are redeeming qualities a man is likely to find himself “neutered” by such a woman.

I feel badly for women who fell prey to the ideology of the angry old maid. They were deceived over and over again and at the end of their lives they may be rich but are they really? How capable are they going to be at 70 to truly enjoy their children and to participate in their lives? How well grounded are their children going to be having been given everything and having never experienced the natural struggle and path of life and seen their parents overcoming those struggles to make a life for them?

I may be wrong but I see this feeding the selfish shallow hyper managed society that is dehumanizing humanity and turning them into automatons of the powerful.

Reading this woman's story I get the same impression.

I read the original article when it was published, and I had the same reaction. Why did she waste her time with the wrong guys? Also, does she realize she'll be ready for Social Security before her children are out of high school?