Study: Baby-Making Time Flies

AP via FoxNews ^ | Tuesday, April 30, 2002 | N/A

[TigerLikesRooster]

LONDON

[TigerLikesRooster]

So how many Freepers are over the hill according to this new study ?

[Dan Day]

I expected a different sort of article when I read the headline...

[Ciexyz]

Our society encourages young people to focus on their education and careers, and only after establishing themselves on the career ladder, to take time off for having children. Maybe that's a mistake.

It's also distressing that a college education has stretched to an average of five years, and in many cases, six years. Pharmacy programs are seven and eight years long.

[sausageseller]

My wife is a exception! Now pregnant at 42 shhh. ( don't let her know I told her age)

Our fourth. We will have one graduating from college and one in kindergarten 6yrs from now. Man I think I need to get fixed!

[katherineisgreat]

My Mom had my sister at 28, me at 30, another kid at 35 another one at 37 and the last one at 43. So I don't quite know about this study. Either that or my Mom is a very special Woman :)

[Windsong]

"...and in many cases, six years"

Actually, I think that isthe case in MOST schools. And State universities are deceptive to say that 12 hrs is "full time", when what they really mean, when you look at the grad requirements, is actually 16 hrs per semester, to graduate in 4 years. Universities are a business, and like any business, will try and milk the profits for all there worth. I'd say in 20 years, 5 yrs will be the bare minimum. Lamentable, but true. I suppose its always been this way, and is only increasing as the admins and libs ultimately want more control, and more money.

[uncbob]

Well my brother got married at 25 his wife was 27
They produced 9 kids with no twins and finally went to birth control

[Phantom Lord]

My wife is a exception! Now pregnant at 42 shhh. ( don't let her know I told her age)

You sir are a dead man

[Wphile]

ROFLOL!

[BlueLancer]

"Baby-Making Time Flies ..."
...when you're having fun.

[Vineyard]

Man I think I need to get fixed!

Why ... are you broke???

Don't complain .... be happy. A co-worker in my office is 45 with a 43 year-old wife. She deliverd #10 child about 6 months ago. (He's deliriously happy .... she must be plain delirious!!)

Mike

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

A seven year pharmacy program, starting pay of well above 60-70k and they are 25. What exactly is wrong with this?

[olivia3boys]

I think I read somewhere that the decline of female fertility after age 35-40 is worse for those who have been childless. In other words, for those who've had children in their 20s-early 30s, it's easier to have more in their late 30s-early 40s. They have an established track record of fertility, so to speak.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

What are you talking about? Our state Universities do everything they can to get people out as fast as possible. A students tuition is capped at 25% in our state (students only pay around 23% now)...the state pays the other 75%.

Before you spout off here, why don't you at least make sure you have some idea of what you are talking about.

[Vineyard]

The U.S. built Experimental Breeder Reactor #1 & #2 (Idaho) - demonstrated the ability to reprocess fuel on-site and put it back in the same reactor.

The Fast Flux Test Facility (400 Megawatts thermal power output) in Hanford, WA was a test-bed for breeder reactor technology - and it operated from 1980 to 1990. The technology was to be used in the first large scale commercial breeder reactor - Clinch River (Tennessee).

But Carter cancelled all reprocessing ... and shortly thereafter, Clinch River Breeder Reactor was cancelled. The FFTF was shutdown early as a means of saving money ... even though proponents suggested it would be useful for making Tritium (replenish our nuclear weapons, since Tritium has a half-life of 11+ years), and medical isotopes.

Interesting technology ... and very reasonable. [There was a sodium-cooled reactor outside of Detroit - a power reactor ... subject of the much fact distorted book "We Almost Lost Detroit" (heck, if their facts were true ... .who would miss Detroit!!). But that reactor wasn't designed to be a breeder reactor. ]

Mike

[general_re]

The Fast Flux Test Facility (400 Megawatts thermal power output) in Hanford, WA was a test-bed for breeder reactor technology - and it operated from 1980 to 1990. The technology was to be used in the first large scale commercial breeder reactor - Clinch River (Tennessee).

Yeahhhh...okay. Good to know. I'll be sure to bring all that up when my wife and I are discussing childbearing and family planning - no doubt, she'll be very interested in all that ;)

[valkyrieanne]

My Mom had my sister at 28, me at 30, another kid at 35 another one at 37 and the last one at 43. So I don't quite know about this study.

It's a different story when the woman has already gotten pregnant. While the story doesn't mention it, it's easier to get pregnant in one's forties if one already has had children. First-time mothers are the ones that have more difficulty.

[valkyrieanne]

Actually, pharmacy programs *are* six years, for instance SLCP and Purdue. Someone else mentioned that someone graduating high school at 18 would be a professional PhD pharmacist by age 24 or 25. That is true. The problem I think is that after spending 6 years in a challenging program like pharmacy, most women would not want to immediately have children, or especially have children & not work. In a field like pharmacy it is probably essential to keep entirely up to date, and one probably has to take courses for CEUs and have a certain minimum amount of work experience to keep the license.

It's a tough call. Women really can't sit home at 18 or work a low-skilled job waiting for Mr. Right to come along, especially as Mr. Right is probably going to be in college himself. If she goes to college she will most likely want to work professionally. Nature doesn't wait, though.

[dbwz]

So how many Freepers are over the hill according to this new study ?

I just celebrated birthday #36, so count me in... ;-)

My mom was 38 when I was born, and my brother came along 2 years later. She was not what you'd call a "career woman." While there may be women who put off children because of possible career interference, there are also those who encounter circumstances beyond their control.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

A girl getting out of school at 25 has plenty of time to get pregnant. A lot of couples meet in college, marry soon after and then have kids a few years later. BTW, I know a girl who is in law school now and is planning on staying at home after she has kids. I don't see anything wrong with this, especially since she can afford to do this.