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Though birth rates are declining, also age of mothers having their first child is increasing so depending on your friends' ages, it might not be as bad as it se
by foxglacier 2y ago
Though birth rates are declining, also age of mothers having their first child is increasing so depending on your friends' ages, it might not be as bad as it seems. They may say no up to their early 30's but change their mind by their late 30's. For fathers, who are generally older, that could happen in their 40's. It did for me.
I wonder what proportion of women would naturally want to have children if there was no social or economic pressure either way. I suspect it's higher than the proportion of professional women who have children because low-income women do so at a higher rate. So we may have a generation of lonely old people sitting on a pile of money and being doubly vulnerable to scams.