question after reading "running a household" thread

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It can be very hard to have a hardcore career going if you're having kids, especially for the first half dozen years or so, till they get into school. Unless you're perfectly fine with basically seeing them only on weekends and letting them be raised substantially by someone else, say a grandma or a nanny or something. A kid can be a dream and career-derailer like no other.

So I can see, and have seen, some especially ambitious couples put off childbearing for a good long time.