Vox podcast on Freezing Eggs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What bothers me about this is IVF pregnancies are higher risk, and a prima AMA pregnancy is high risk. Why can't society calibrate itself to not be so dependent on labor of women for those 15 critical years (age 20 to 35)? Are the interests of society being best represented when women push their first pregnancy off until age 40? If everybody starts doing this grandparents will effectively become a thing of the past. Everyone will get the "sandwich" generation effect of having young kids and elderly ill parents at the same time. In terms of demographics, having kids at later age acts like lower fertility with the average age going up. Inevitably people will have fewer children if their first child happens at age 35+.

Blech.

That's my considered response to seeking societal change to support motherhood earlier in life.

I neither wanted, nor was ready for, motherhood in my 20's. Had I become a mother then I would have done a much worse job of it and almost certainly would have put my kid(s) through a divorce.

Blech.

I feel sorry for any of your direct reports. You sound terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What bothers me about this is IVF pregnancies are higher risk, and a prima AMA pregnancy is high risk. Why can't society calibrate itself to not be so dependent on labor of women for those 15 critical years (age 20 to 35)? Are the interests of society being best represented when women push their first pregnancy off until age 40? If everybody starts doing this grandparents will effectively become a thing of the past. Everyone will get the "sandwich" generation effect of having young kids and elderly ill parents at the same time. In terms of demographics, having kids at later age acts like lower fertility with the average age going up. Inevitably people will have fewer children if their first child happens at age 35+.

Blech.

That's my considered response to seeking societal change to support motherhood earlier in life.

I neither wanted, nor was ready for, motherhood in my 20's. Had I become a mother then I would have done a much worse job of it and almost certainly would have put my kid(s) through a divorce.

Blech.

You weren't ready for kids at 25 so everybody should be financially and socially bullied into 40 year old motherhood?

Sure that's what I meant. Not at all that women should have the option to have children when they're older if they choose (and are able to). No, I totally meant that women should be bullied into not having children until later.

Not sure why I bother engaging sometimes. People are stupid.

"Blech. That's my considered response to seeking societal change to support motherhood earlier in life. "