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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the spinsters on dcum, squandering away your 20s and 30s on two rents and two sets of bills and boozing the weekend away at brunch while your fertility withers away, is wiser than marrying after college, buying a house with your husband, and having children when you don't need scientists and $50,000 in ivf lab bills. Because, based on absolutely nothing, your career will suffer and your healthy children will be worse off with young energetic parents. Some of you are living in the 50s era mentality. It's 2022, nobody can fire you for getting pregnant. Many employers offer free child care and all employers are going to pay you and your husband's maternity/paternity leave. And if anything, you're more likely to seek out and connect with bosses who can give you promotions when you're married with kids.[/quote]

I’m not going to waste time looking up studies to counter a troll who won’t care, but there ARE studies saying:

1. Employers absolutely do fire pregnant women all the time. Yes, it’s technically illegal, but that law is rarely to never enforced.

2. Free child care? “Many” employers is a stretch. Meanwhile, the US is one of the 3 most expensive countries for child care, and hundreds of areas both rural and urban are “childcare deserts” without nearly enough spots for the demand.

3. “All employers” will pay for leave? The US is literally the only developed country in the world without paid family leave.

None of this even affects me. I’m a SAHM. But I get annoyed when people smugly try to push total lies like they’re truth.

(I’m leaving the age thing alone because I don’t know the real stats on that one. But anecdotally, I got pregnant at 37, within a month of going off birth control, while trying natural family planning.)

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