[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't pick numbers. In each woman's case, fertility is what it is. It emerges, waxes, wanes and disappears on its own schedule.

I wish more young women realized that their fertility starts to plunge in their late 20's. You want a reasonable-sized family? Het a move on, ladies.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Life is toughn for women, if women want to launch professional careers and get married and have children in their 20s. Many people graduate from college at 21 or 22 or 23. Then they may get a career path going. But within 4 or 5 years, the woman may find d she has to make some life choices as to where she goes from there.

It’s hard to combine a high powered professional career with children. Maybe more people both men and women, should think about these things, and not just assume they can put off children indefinitely.

How many young people nowadays place a high value on marriage and family as important life goals, as compared to career goals??? How many women especially at age 25, consider how they will balance it all???

[JayGalt]

The only problem with this chart is the context. This is # of births /1000 women. What was the status of these women? Were they all trying to get pregnant? The drop off in this chart is much more steep than in most of the studies I have seen.

[Nea Wood]

Not only does fertility begin to decline at around age 28, but if a woman does not have her first baby by age 29 (and then breast feeds that baby), she’s at higher risk for breast cancer. Breast cancer used to be called “the nuns’ disease.” Nuns were at higher risk because they didn’t have children.

Let’s face it. Women were meant to have children and breast feed them, and they were meant to have them young. Young women should be told this. They see celebrities having babies in their 40s and they think they have all the time in the world. Nobody tells them those celebrities are using somebody else’s eggs.