question after reading "running a household" thread

[jdl22]

The couple I know are in their fifties. She didn't really care either way and he preferred not to. They are both really busy, he's a lawyer/accountant and she's a university instructor. They also love to travel.

I think it's mainly that they didn't want to give up their lives to have children.

[Blarg]

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.

[Paluka]

My wife and I were a married couple both over 30 for about 4 months until we got pregnant.