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> This requires a higher than average salary from a graduate job, (which is the life stage when people might reasonably start having children)... Sorry, it wor
by atemerev 9y ago
> This requires a higher than average salary from a graduate job, (which is the life stage when people might reasonably start having children)...
Sorry, it worked this way in mid 20th century. Personally, I didn't even _think_ of having a child before 32, and when it happened, it was still financially challenging.
In Geneva, where I live, the mediab age of the first childbirth is 35.
- bshimmin 9y agoAnd it's 37 in London. Of course, that leads to its own problems.
- Dangeranger 9y agoThis trend leads to the inevitable question of when the age of being prepared financially for children will cross the point of being unable to bear children physically. Fifty years ago it was common to have children around eighteen, thirty years ago it was common to have children around twenty five, and now it feels like thirty five is the normal. This begs the question whether children will be possible before forty five within twenty years, and at that age bearing children becomes a major risk. Women in large Chinese cities are already feeling unable to balance the pressure of a career and parenthood, opting to not have children at all, or having them very late into adulthood.
- atemerev 9y agoPrenatal screening, extracorporal, adoption.
- baq 9y agoAnd this is fine why?
- atemerev 9y agoLife expectancy, cultural changes.