[goodnesswins]

Corporate life is way over rated...freezing eggs to climb the corporate ladder is the ultimate in self centeredness...what...you going to make a baby when you are 50? We are not designed to be mothers at that age...for a reason....

[Cry if I Wanna]

Biologically, women were meant to start having babies starting at around age 13. Humans invented adolescence which created a rule that babies were a no-no until marriage. Then women added further delays so they could have careers. Bottom line, many women these days are very late when it comes to having babies.

[Sacajaweau]

More likely reason is no one wants to marry them.

[Dutch Boy]

Sounds a little like the beginning of the movie Idiocracy.

[JoeFromSidney]

The general idea is this: Focus on building your career now; focus on building your family later.

When I taught Personnel Management, one class session was devoted to managing your own career (if you don't manage your own career, someone else will manage it for you and you might not like it). I would advise the women in my class, imitate Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi: have your family first, then become Prime Minister.

[CodeToad]

When women have children late in life they rob their child of a mother and their children of a grandmother. So, while a women “has it all” their children get nothing. Greedy, self-centered, liberals, but I repeat myself.

[Sequoyah101]

We are meant to be parents with young children not grandparents to our own children. Grandparents have necessary attributes of calm and patience and wisdom and laughs and spoiling nuture but they can’t usually also provide the rough and tumble and activity that children need from their own parents.

Selfish and stupid is what this egg freezing is all about. What a shame.

[SweetAkitoRose]

I had my kids at 38, 39 & 44. We were exceptionally lucky that I got pregnant 3 weeks after we got married, no fertility help except charting-very, very atypical for older parents.

I would have been delighted to marry at 24, & start having babies at 25. Alas, it’s hard to find a guy who will date a shy nerdy type, who wants to wait for marriage-so I didn’t marry until 37. Unfortunately, we are limited by our ages as to how many kids we will rationally be able to have.

I tell every young woman I meet & will tell my girls when they are older to marry the right guy when you find the right guy, even if you end up marrying ‘young’. Same goes for babies: start within a year of marriage if at all possible.

It’s always hard to be a parent, but being an older one is hard, especially on the grandparents. My parents & in-laws mention often how they wish they could be around to see the people their grandkids will grow up to be. It’s really heartbreaking.

Encouraging women to wait until after 30 for marriage & kids seems like a nice thing to do on the surface, but is horribly unrealistic, fights biology, and sets them up for heartbreak.