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Reply to "I wish society didn't encourage people to put off having kids."
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was a different time back then. [/quote] Yes, the way nature intended. Men did the bulk of the labor and women raised children. Society has changed these roles, but we haven’t evolved past them yet, and as PP mentioned, women are birthing children well past their child-bearing prime.[/quote] Women have been having kids in their 30s and even early 40s all along--they were just having their third or fourth or fifth kid, not their first kid. My grandmother had six kids--her youngest in her 20s, her last in her mid/late 30s. Also, women did lots of labor--on farms, as maids, in home businesses like spinning/weaving or laundry. Or they hired other women to care for their kids, including nursing them. Very few women both took care of their own children AND performed no paid work or farmwork. [/quote]
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