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[quote=Anonymous]OP, there are ALWAYS tradeoffs. My family is a bit of a natural scientific experiment on this topic -- DH and I have a 10+ year age gap. He was an "old parent" (near 40) and I was in my 20s. The timing sucked for both of us in different ways -- his parents were getting old and dying and his career was getting intense, and I wanted to be traveling and going out and carefree like all my young peers. It worked out but there are always tradeoffs. Fwiw, I did find that having a kid young/early in my career has cost me less in terms of career setbacks. It's a contrarian choice but I ended up with a better, higher-paying and less stressful job after having a baby. I don't know that I would have come out quite so unscathed if I'd stepped back during manager, high-intensity years.[/quote]
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