[SauronOfMordor]

Yes, women can have kids into their late 30’s (my mom also had me late). The point, though, is that the probability of bearing a healthy child drops sharply after mid 30s, and becomes very low by mid 40s.

Women’s bodies are at peak for having children in their 20s. One major cause of the Western middle class’s low fertility is from delaying marriage into the women’s 30s.

Women don’t want to hear it, but their attractiveness peaks in their early 20s. If they are not attracting the kind of man they want at 24, things are unlikely to be better at 34.

[mountainfolk]

That last line saying that women decline in attractiveness after age 24 got a laugh from me. Seriously. You are so wrong. Males are on the hunt from day one and females maybe later but probably more aggressive. I cannot count the many times a male has told me about his beautiful girlfriend and when I met her she was pretty average. Anyway, biology trumps other considerations that come later with maturity or perhaps experience.

[grey_whiskers]

Women don’t want to hear it, but their attractiveness peaks in their early 20s. If they are not attracting the kind of man they want at 24, things are unlikely to be better at 34.

At 24, they concentrate on attracting, not "Mr. Right" but "Mr. Right NOW!" (like in the men's bathroom of the nightclub)

By the time they're 34, they look for Mr. Right, but her tastes and expectations have changed because she is jaded, and she no longer can muster attraction to or for most of the remaining unmarried males.