Re: Older Women
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Good post, LFTV. Could you perhaps expand your thoughts on the biological clock thing?
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Pretend you are a thirty-year old woman who wants to have a family (i.e. two or three kids) "someday." You aren't really aching to have them NOW because -
There's a lot of fun stuff that is easier to do when you don't have kids (go out, travel, etc.)
You have a boyfriend/fiancee-to-be who you'd like to spend a few years with alone before you have kids (and he'd like that too).
You have a career that would go much more smoothly if you worked your ass off for ten years, and then had kids.
But doing all this means you don't start having kids until you're 40. Not impossible, but not ideal either, a lot of things can go wrong if you wait too long, plus you'll be like 65 by the time the last one leaves the house, etc.
A lot of single late 20's/early 30's career women face this kind of issue. And if you're the guy who's 24 and in a perfect world would wait ten years to have kids, well, something has to give. There's no perfect solution, it just is what it is.
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