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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the science lesson, but yet again, I'd like to repeat that many of the women you are accusing of putting off child bearing are not doing so because we're swanning around, traveling to Europe, and waiting to "find ourselves." And we're not that influenced by what Hollywood stars are doing. To the contrary, many of us would like to bear children with decent partners, but they don't always magically pop up by the age 32 timetable that you have identified as the drop-dead date for child-bearing. Maybe we need to get it through the heads of men that by age 32 they need to think about settling down, instead of acting like overgrown children playing the field perpetually. (not all men, but quite a few fall into this category.)[/quote]

And maybe we need to get into the heads of women that they need to settle for the good enough guys early on rather than pursuing great passions, soul-mating and prince-charmings (only to find themselves at 40 settling desperately for divorcees, jobless and/or mentally unstable).

Though getting married and having babies are two different (and connected) issues, there is quite a bit of similarity between married women who postpone childbearing waiting to be ready, and unmarried women turning down men because they don't fit image of whom they should marry (i.e. they are short, socially awkward, don't share their interests etc). [/quote]

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