Careers not main reason for delaying motherhood

Gold Coast Bulletin ^ | 5/22/07 | Staff

[colorado tanker]

Delayed marriage and childbirth is a demographic trend that accompanies industrialization and development. Despite what Planned Parenthood may claim, this trend was driving birthrates down in the West long before widespread availability of contraception.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Where is that written?

"Go forth and multiply"

[Teacher317]

You can negotiate my business deals any day!!

[gogeo]

It’s awfully hard to find “Mr. Right” when you’re tramping it up in bars, drinking like a fish and banging “Mr. Right NOW.” Being a parent means effacing yourself to a degree, and giving up disposable income, instant gratification and a fairly selfish existence. A LOT of the younger generation aren’t up tp the challenge...

Australian paper...I wonder if the numbers would be similar elsewhere?

[Fawn]

That is optional ......

[Shazolene]

“On top of this, women are waiting longer to meet the right man to father their children and are simply not prepared to compromise.”

What a gross way to put it. The problem as I see it is that girls are no longer taught that it is important to find a good husband and father, and MARRY HIM to create a stable and loving home for future children. “The right man” could/should mean someone who is kind and responsible, and who knows how to love a woman.

Sadly, that type of man is becoming as rare as the type of woman who has enough sense to look for him...

[grellis]

Don’t let it get you down. Congratulations on motherhood!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Got ya beat! I became a Mom at 35. I married a man with one adorable tow-headed imp of his own, and we then ended up raising his two nephews as well. (The boys were all within a year of one another.)

I owned my own home, had rental properties, and was 2 years from my Army retirement. After we married I worked full time in Corporate America, and I look back and can’t BELIEVE what I accomplished in a “normal” 24 hour day, LOL! (I’m 47 now; they’re all grown and off on their own and all are doing well.)

And I wouldn’t trade a MINUTE of my life before or after the boys came into it. Things worked out as they should have. God put me where I should have been at the right time for us all. :)

I pity the current crop of young women these days. They’re in for a rough ride with blinders on, that’s for sure. Some will rise to the occasion though, I’m sure. ;)

[GOP_1900AD]

Some couples are childless because unless one can home school and live way out in the boonies, it’s a complete uphill battle trying to fight the Gramscian tide. Even private schools pollute young minds now, let alone the overarching mass (sick) culture. Why raise kids knowing they will become little Communists?

[Shion]

Thank you! (I’m the wife.)

Don’t believe for a second though that I’m not counting every day against fertility expectations. We both have to work full-time in this area just to rent, and there’s no way I’m handing over an infant to day care. Here’s hoping for the housing market crash...