[tortoise]

For women, early 20s are biologically the best time for having children.

Unfortunately, it is unambiguously almost the worst time by most other important metrics. Our environment is evolving faster than our biology.

[Feldkurat_Katz]

For women, early 20s are biologically the best time for having children.

Unfortunately, it is unambiguously almost the worst time by most other important metrics. Our environment is evolving faster than our biology.

The amount of time one has to spend in educational institutions is a problem. It would actually make more sense for young women do college on a slow track while having kids in the meantime. That way they could enter the workforce with the early stage of raising the children completed.

[Antoninus]

Unfortunately, it is unambiguously almost the worst time by most other important metrics. Our environment is evolving faster than our biology.

We're humans, remember? We create our own environment. Any environment (read, society) that does not jive with our biological and emotional needs invariably leads to ill health, in body, mind and spirit. Hence the ubiquity of mental illness in our society. As Jung once said, if the majority of society were practicing Catholics, he'd be out of business.