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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have not read twenty pages of this thread but I really hope that my kids don’t get married until they are in their 30s. Every single wedding 
I went to for people who met in college and got married afterwards has ended in divorce. None of the couples who married in their 30s or later have gotten divorced.

You simply change so much over the course of 18-28/30. It’s also the time to find out who YOU are without constraints of being defined by another person or your family.  Divorce is really hard and traumatic to people. It permanently scars kids. Blended families never work. I just wouldn’t want my kids to put themselves at such a high risk for a bad outcome.

As for where they live, I want them to go where they are happy. If that’s very far away, it’s OK. I view my job as a parent as giving them life not stealing theirs to extend mine. [/quote]

Better have kids and divorce than marry in 30s, have kids close to their 40s and either fertility struggle or you’ll be a very old grandma [/quote]

True.

A woman who waits until 30 only has a 50/50 chance of becoming a mother.

At age 35, her chances drop to 15%[/quote]

That is absolute nonsense. Fertility myth has been dubunked.

(Second kid at 37, unplanned, one time sex in years. So much research has debunked the fertitilty cliff at 35 that it is not even funny. Even generations ago, women had kids well into their late 30s. Both my grandmothers did. And most women had their last kids in their late 30s.)[/quote]

A woman's fertility begins a gradual decline around age 30, with the rate of decline speeding up after age 35. This is because the number and quality of her eggs decrease over time. By age 40, the chance of getting pregnant in any given cycle is about 5%. 
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