[Varda]

Agree with everything you wrote, especially this, “ as women pursue careers, they are less likely to want many kids.”.

This embrace of feminism is the number one reason IMO. Female fertility starts declining at age 25 yet you rarely see married women in that age group with kids. Girls are taught to establish themselves in a career first, then have children. That in and of itself will cause a woman to have few or zero children.

[robowombat]

Interesting. My wife has a close friend who is an a formally educated member one of the ‘helping’ professions. She was married to a truly evil and nearly insane man who was an attorney. They had a terrible life and all three of their children are severely scarred under performing adults who have no children. She, due to her experience including marrying much to early, relentlessly trashes marriage and family to the extent of discouraging any young woman she meets who is engaged from ‘putting marriage (and by inference family) before having a ‘rewarding and liberating career’. I wonder how many women out there are like her. Make a rash and foolish decision about a spouse and then spend your life denouncing the institution of matrimony and the family rather than admitting to ones responsibility for their mistakes.

[Marie]

My 21 year old married daughter is dying to have kids. Her and her husband have decided to postpone children for another 4 years until the economy bounces back.

She’s very sad about it, but doesn’t feel like she has a choice.