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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an attorney and I was fortunate to be able to conceive in my late 30s after establishing my career (I then had secondary infertility and wound up being one and done).

I was totally blindsided by the degree to which having a child at 38 would derail my legal career and essentially foreclose several possible career options for me. I could not have had kids in my 20s (had not met my husband yet) but I actually think it's the ideal time for a professional woman to have children. But you need a lot of support -- more than just a nanny. You will get zero support from work so you need your family and partner to be fully on board and willing to take on a lot of what moms often wind up doing on their own in our culture. Not just the direct childcare but all the other stuff -- figuring out childcare and keeping track of growth and development and planning for the future and keeping the household organized. It is not possible to have a high level professional career while doing that on your own. You need a super invested partner or really involved grandparents or possibly both depending on the number of kids.

Basically professional women are at a severe disadvantage because these professions were designed for men with housewives and sahms who were assumed to ALSO have support from family and hired help. That's what lawyers and doctors had for a long time. Women in these professions almost never have all that. It makes motherhood very difficult.[/quote]
Conversely, the dual income households make the SAHM households on single income miserable. [/quote]

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