Jean Twenge at the Atlantic says you’ve been misled as regards fertility dropping with age, and that with fertility treatments, in vitro fertilization, etc., it’s really not as bad as it’s painted to be.
So go ahead, career-minded women; you really can have it all! Or so you’ll be told, i.e. what you want to hear.
Meanwhile, more sensible women will marry and begin having children earlier, and so trads will outbreed you.
But at least you won’t have to feel baaaad until then, thanks to the Atlantic’s propaganda. Ugogirl!
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Peter Blood
July 8, 2013 at 11:00 pm
They want to genocide us. Slow and steady winnows the race!
Will S.
July 8, 2013 at 11:07 pm
Ha! Clever paraphrase there. 🙂
sunshinemary
July 8, 2013 at 11:21 pm
Wow, I just read the article. That’s some serious hamsterbatics there.
Gee, we wouldn’t want to make women rearrange their lives over something as unimportant as a child, would we?
Will S.
July 8, 2013 at 11:31 pm
Secular-progressive-‘utopia’-on-earth forbid!
electricangel
July 9, 2013 at 2:11 am
Will,
I read this before ye post. I was glad to read it, as I was unaware of the stats that female fertility starts declining at 24 being based on 300 year old French data. I agree with Twenge on that point. the fact remains: early 20s is still the most fertile time to have a child, and with female life expectancy into the 80s, it would be possible to have a 30 year career starting at 45.
electricangel
July 9, 2013 at 2:17 am
@SSM,
I am coming around to the idea that women who are 18-22 should not go to college, but it should be available to the 28-32 year old, with 25% off tuition per child. this of course within the confines of a traditionalist religious organization.
the problem is that college was an institution designed for young men, with a man’s biological clock (yes, we have them. it amounts to not be too old to kick your 16yo son’s ass, or, alternately, to have at least 10 years between your last kid exiting diapers and your entering them), and we have not redesigned the institution for the needs or biology of young women (or of the society that needs children) Am I on to something, or off my rocker? I call on your exxpertise as a woman.
Will S.
July 9, 2013 at 5:27 pm
@ EA: Exactly.