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[quote=Anonymous]I know a woman who had kids in her early 20s and then got a PhD in her early 40s. I think if you are in good health, this can be great because you can truly focus on career once you've raise (or mostly raised) your kids.

It's very hard for women in their 20s and 30s to truly invest in careers while also trying to find a partner and have kids while they are still fertile. It's obviously possible (I did it) but it's hard and stressful and there are definitely other career choices I would have made if I hadn't been trying to do both at the same time. And then there's the dance you do once you've established your career and have kids, and have to juggle being a mom to very young children while in your peak career years (late 30s/early 40s). It's hard.

But I don't think any of it is easy. Going back to school in my mid-30s and starting a career in my late 30s or early 40s sounds hard as hell, especially if I also had teens or even adult kids because it's not like you have NO family obligations.

Really the main issue is just that we delegate so much of parenting/childcare to mostly women and even the really "involved" dads gets lower expectations and less pressure on the parenting front which helps them to focus more on work. As a working mom, I feel like my brain is just stretched to its absolute max trying to juggle everything I need to juggle.[/quote]

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