Cary Grant (61), Dyan Cannon (27) and their daughter in 1965
“Women have a narrow fertility window of around 15 to 40”
Great Grandmother had her last baby at 49. Grandmother had her last at 50. Mom had her last at 42. Maybe I just come from REALLY fertile stock?
The US total fertility has been below replacement levels (2.1) since 2007. It currently stands at 1.89 as of 2011.
Amen to this! Bob
“Being that I am still a newly-wed and have just moved to a new city, I am in no rush to have a kid...”
BTW, stop calling children, “kid(s).” Kids are baby goats. Children are not animals.
The libs have doomed America to demographic decline in more ways than one
No worries. The Muslims are picking up the slack.
People should have children when they can afford to and when they’re emotionaly prepared for it.
Thats the problem today.We have too many people that can’t afford children and are not emotionaly ready for careing for them thats one of the big reasons why our welfare rolls are so high as well as the high numbers of child abuse and neglect cases.
I bought into the Feminist’s claptrap that you can delay childbearing. I had my only child at 36. What a blessing he has been! Five miscarriages later, we gave up. So thankful that we have our one, but would’ve loved having more. I now tell any young lady who asks, DON’T DELAY. Start in your 20’s if you want to have more than one. It is safe advice.
From a fascinating and controversial article:
Which of the career paths listed below makes more sense?:
1. Focus on career right out of school, have recreational sex with pleasant male companions your own age, be on the success track for 10-15 years, then panic when you realize you want children but you don’t want to derail your career, your looks are starting to fade compared to the twentysomethings, there aren’t any men that seem interested in marrying you, and in any event, you’re running out of time,
or
2. After high school or during college, focus on finding a man about 10 years older who has established himself in the last decade and who wants a family. Use your youth, looks, and fertility to find the best possible man for the role of Husband and Father. Have children at a young age, soon after you finish your schooling, while you have lots of energy and your body will recover quickly. Be there for the kids when they need you, and let your husband do the financial lifting. Be good to both the kids and your husband, and be thinking about what your career dreams are while caring for your family. Talk to your husband about these dreams. Tell him you don’t want to just sit around the house at age 40-45. Then go after your dream, once the kids are of majority age. You’ve still got a few good decades left, plenty of time for career success.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070108014754/http://www.john-ross.net/feminism.htm
I think this post and this article both touch on separate issues: whether it’s risky to delay having a baby (it is) and whether people have a right to ask others when they plan to have children (they don’t).
.......Well there was one Abraham and Sarah who had their son Issac well into their old age.
Misleading at best - that's for a single month. Here's a clip from the linked article:
A woman’s best reproductive years are in her 20s. Fertility gradually declines in the 30s, particularly after age 35. Each month that she tries, a healthy, fertile 30-year-old woman has a 20% chance of getting pregnant. That means that for every 100 fertile 30-year-old women trying to get pregnant in 1 cycle, 20 will be successful and the other 80 will have to try again. By age 40, a woman’s chance is less than 5% per cycle, so fewer than 5 out of every 100 women are expected to be successful each month.
In other words, the chance of a 40-year-old woman conceiving is about 1/4 that of a 30-year old.