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[quote=Anonymous]I totally understand the feeling of wanting to dispell the myth for women who seem not to understand that it's not easy to have a baby when you're 40. But from my perspective, had a friend told me something like that when I was younger, I would have been fairly miserable. I wasn't married, there was no marriageble guy on the horizon, and I WANTED to be married before raising a family.

Then I got old enough and I realized that if I wanted to have a kid i would have to do it on my own, because I was facing a biological deadline. But it took a LOT of thinking to get to that point.

Not all women who appear to be "waiting" are unaware of how biology works. For some of us, the circumstances just aren't right -- we aren't established in our jobs, maybe we're not partnered, or our marriages may be more shaky than they appear to an outsider. For these and a variety of other reasons, I would refrain from being the "voice of doom" for younger women unless they brought up the topic for some reason. And even then, I would be gentle about it. Sometimes people just have to come to these realizations on their own. [/quote]

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