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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I come from a conservative culture where women marry young, including affluent ones.

All my peers wanted to get married young and many did. At the time it was upsetting to me I couldn’t find someone.

Instead I focused on my career and educated and traveled the world. I met my husband. I’ve lived in a few large cities. Now I’m so glad I didn’t marry young. I’ve lived a more exciting life and didn’t give up my 20s for kids in diapers. Looking back I can see the main reason my peers wanted to marry was $. They didn’t have a lot of career options so a man was a plan.

The big risk having kids going is that it disrupts a woman’s career and earning potential. Since I had kids in my 30s I had 6 months plus of accrued leave for each child and stayed in the workforce. My peers who had children at 26 dropped out of the workforce. I also made enough money when I had kids to hire a nanny and night nanny. This wouldn’t have happened at age 27.

I don’t know a single woman who has done well professionally and married very young. It’s not impossible but I know hundreds and don’t know a single one.

I’d actually rather choose to remain single forever and not have kids over having kids young and not having a career or financial freedom. [/quote]

You can marry the right person young, finish your education, have a career, grow along with your DH and have kids after several years of marriage.  You actually sound very stupid.  As a woman you have control over your fertility and when you choose to have kids.  Marrying young is beneficial financially and as a household you can grow your earnings faster.  Better to have two people earning and saving at the same time.

If you do not know even one professionally successful mother who married young, then it just tells me more about your cultural/racial demographics than you would imagine.  In fact, every single word you have written paints a true picture of how much you have compromised in your life choices. [/quote]

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