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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish society would stop devaluing women, unless they are mothers.

So there’s that. [/quote]

It is fine to not want to be a mother. It is risky to wait until 40 to have children if you want to be a mother to biologically-yours children. It isn't devaluing women to point out the realities of biology.[/quote]

Who is advising women to wait until 40 to try to conceive? Nobody.  The point people are making is that life events often don't align these days until after your 20s.  Everyone knows the realities of biology.  [/quote]
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I could have “bred” with any of the men I was attached to in my 20s and early 30s. Of course, our relationships were doomed, we weren’t financially stable, and a whole host of other socioeconomic issues that go alone with not procreating. My (theoretical) child would have been subjected to economic uncertainty, a separated home/two homes, plus a whole bunch of drama.

That’s better than the life I, as an older parent, have made for my daughter, with two parents, lots of financial security, more time, more resources, etc?

I would have LOVED kids in my earlier years, but it didn’t work out that way.

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