Not everyone finds the love of their life at 18. My father didn’t want me to date until I was out of college. A woman can want children, but not find a suitable husband so quickly.
There are some on this site who love to condemn. They sicken me.
My oldest daughter married in college, it was a disaster. She raised her son alone and just got remarried last year to a wonderful man. My middle daughter did not marry until 30 to a wonderful man and is now expecting a baby, she gave up a pretty decent career to be a stay at home mom. My youngest married in college, another disaster. She is now raising two kids alone.
I married at 23, had my first baby at 24 and wondered at times if I was too young! But have been married to a wonderful man for many years, we raised three wonderful daughters.
I think different things work for different people. I don’t know but young people I know are getting married about 25 and having children so I am not seeing the trend here I guess.
I would strongly disagree. Not everybody has a vocation to marriage and family. But those who do marry do not do so honestly, if they are not open (within reason) to having a family. Procreation is a constitutive element of the Sacrament of Matrimony --- and not only sacramental marriage but "natural" marriage as well.
"Constitutive element" means it's part of the very definition.
Of course I am not referring to those who are destitute, diseased or disabled. Although, come to think of it, I do know people who are fairly severely disabled who have successfully had families, including a woman with cerebral palsy whose husband had PTSD, a woman with MS and another with lupus whose husbands were earning below the poverty level, and couples with (shall we say) ordinary disabilities like blind and deaf.
Having a child(or two or three or more) turned out to be what they most treasured in their vision of marriage and family life.
My point is that money by itself is rarely the limiting factor. The decisive favor, is what do people value.