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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's been a bad life choice  for decades. I know plenty of women who had kids in their 20's that had deep regrets in their 40's and 50's. No news here.[/quote]

How can it be a bad life choice to have children when you're biologically at your peak AND you make enough money to easily support them?>

OP said she was making 200k at 26, which is a great income for mid twenty somethings. One can only assume their income rose from there...[/quote]

26 isn't early 20s.

Most 20-23 year olds aren't making enough money to support a family. Generations ago they would have been. That's the difference. [/quote]

A lot of it is just accepting a low standard of living for young families, which isn’t as common here. I knew some Mormon families in the DC area when my first was a baby. They were early 20s, in grad school, working PT opposite shifts so each could cover childcare shifts, living in a truly crappy 1 BR apt and only shopping at Aldi. And that was normal to them the way being poor in college might be normal to us. The expectation was that you make it work and it’s get comfortable later.[/quote]

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