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[quote=Anonymous]Of course women have chosen to wait!

Please look at the rates of women working full time versus 30 and 40 years ago.  Compare the percentage of college graduates.  The more educated working woman is more likely to feel like she needs to/can afford to build up a nest egg before getting married and/or having kids.  It’s one of the biggest reasons that fundamentalist communities limit education for women and keep them out of the workforce.  The less education and ability to support herself, the more a woman will go along with beliefs that her only goal and use is as a brood mare.  There are still many, many women having kids as teens and early 20s.  DCUM is not representative of the socio-economic strata in this area, let alone the country or the world.

FWIW, I don’t have kids and won’t.  My mother was barely 21 in 1985 when she had me.  Her mother was 23 in 1963.  Her mother was 22 in 1939.  Her mother was 19 in 1908.  None had more than a high school diploma when they got married, but all went to college while they had kids (including my great-great-grandmother).  All made piss-poor choices in men, except my great-great-grandmother (Poppy encouraged her education).  All were glad that they had their kids young and were young grandmothers, able to play on the floor with kids without having aches and pains.  I have happy memories of growing up with five generations.[/quote]

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