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Pressure from family? Friends? Is this more keenly felt by women v men do you think?

• thefounder 9y ago
  First is the pressure from my partner(she is very much into having children), then the family and then there is the fact that most of my friends have kinds or at least are looking to have kids. When I meet old friends I find that most of them married and have kids too...you are told now it's the time to have kinds and later you will regret it. You won't be able to have kinds anymore(due biological issues) or you will be more like an grandpa than a father to them. I can understand their arguments but I have no desire to have children(yet).
• cimmanom 9y ago
  The impression I get is that women are more expected to want children, so not wanting them is seen as more transgressive. Additionally, women have a shorter timeframe in which to have children, so the pressure intensifies after age 30 in a way that it may not for men. However, parents want grandchildren from their male and female children equally, and pressure from friends is applied to a couple as a couple, not as individuals.