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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I feel like everyone is trying a little too hard to avoid the true answer to the infertility issues. Have children when you are younger. Even the issues highlighted in this article, and thank you to the author for highlighting the misogynistic tenor of infertility (it's NOT always the woman's fault!), many of which can be avoided by not waiting until your junk is ancient.

I get it, it's hugely inconvenient, you aren't as rich as you imagine you may be in your 30s/40s, you want to party and travel, etc.

I fully respect the choice to be child-free. But if you think you want kids, find a spouse and get on it. Don't spend another twenty years dancing around the reasons for infertility or fertility challenges, we know the answer. Have kids when you are younger!

Link for those of you with accounts, I don't know how to gift an article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/freeze-sperm-infertility-chemicals.html[/quote]

Oh yes, it's so easy. Just go find a spouse and procreate. You sound incredibly young and naive and flat out stupid.[/quote]

I'm almost 50.

I remember vividly when my much older
Coworker told me, in 2001, that dating in DC was a sh$$ show and I'd never be able to find a husband. Well, she came to my wedding in 2005.

Not naive, not young, not stupid.

It may not be easy, but it's not that hard either. It's a new, arbitrary and unhelpful cultural standard to wait to get married until your mid to late 30s. Couples are creating a  fertility problem that doesn't need to exist.

Have children or not, it's no one's business but your own.

But please don't complain about infertility issues if younwaited until you and your partner have no viable biological material left! [/quote]

Very candidly: why not?

If you can’t afford a kid you should raise one in poverty so a really REALLY superior lady on the internet will feel better about you?

If you’re chronically ill you should neglect your kid or endanger your health so a smug loony on a mommy site at 50 doesn’t have to be confronted with reality?

If you don’t meet the right person you should settle and reproduce so your kids can watch you be miserable but someone whose Friday night is aggressively judging others can feel better about their choices?

Truly you’re nuts. I’m sorry you regret your choices so profoundly you need others to repeat them but the solution is therapy not internalized misogyny. [/quote]

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