Posted on 06/26/2014 3:33:09 PM PDT by NYer
FYI, ping!
Great piece; a lot of women are in denial about this. On a positive note, an increasing number of women don’t care.
Who would want to wait until they were 37 to start a family anyway? Crazy!
I had my third at 41...........my first at 32..........wish I had more
Many couples are opting for dogs instead of children. Hopefully, they are saving their money for their old age.
I have to agree. It seems pretty late to be “starting from scratch.”
The thing I seem to notice about older mothers is that their pregnancies are usually more troublesome. Let’s face it...there is a world of difference between the 37 year old body and the 25 year old body. Of the ladies I know that had children later in life it also seems that the incidence of health issues in the newborns seems to be high.
“On a positive note, an increasing number of women don’t care.”
I think you are right. My daughter is college educated and she and many of her friends have already had babies. Some planned, some not, but all adorable and loved by their moms and dads.
I have a lot of hope for the so-called millenials,I think they grew up to a certain extent in a sea of BS, but a great many of them have always seen right through it.
/sarc
Contrary to what the feminists would like, women were designed to have and nurse children in early adulthood, not start a career.
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I would have loved to settle down and have a family when I was younger, but the women I knew wanted nothing to do with it. They would rather party and have fun, or pursue their careers. Well, I am not interested in paying for IVF for a 35+ year old woman who has been around the block a few times, so they’ll have to find another sucker.
yes, the millenials were raised by two career folks and they want children! our son and wife have one and want a bunch more! they want to homeschool like we did.
Idiocracy should be renamed “America the Documentary”.
I don’t think the problem is, specifically, age, short of menopause. The bigger issue is what you’re doing in all the years between puberty and 35 or 40: contraceptives, abortions, STDs, smoking.
They couldn’t possibly find a study population of men and women with healthy reproductive systems to draw meaningful conclusions about fertility “in the natural state.”
The author goes through ridiculous and great pains to avoid saying conception and pregnancy is a female function.
No. "Crazy" is starting one any younger than that.
My mother always said it was good thing God allowed women to have children when they are young...otherwise they wouldn't have the energy to keep up with them.
What was the margarine commercial?
"Its not nice to fool Mother Nature"
So, you see having children as a means of caring for you in your old age. Don't count on it, Mac. I'm sure that others can recite instances in which the children did not, positively did not, assist their parents when the latter grew old.
I have no children (for which I give thanks every day), and yes, I am financially comfortable in my old age.
P.S. My dog is great company, too.
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