[Under the Radar]

You mention that there are many hostile comments about women. I think you are correct, and I think the comments are warranted. In point of fact it hasn't been that long that women were taught some basics of life (such as what was mentioned by one poster above). Women threw it away hand-over-fist, and are now crying the blues because they cannot get a man. Ultimately it is the woman's responsibility to make herself "saleable," if you will. By "saleable" I mean attractive enough to induce the committment of resources and time and energy that marriage entails. Most women do not do this until it is too late. (Inducing a man to have sex with you is much easier, as you may suspect.)

By too late I mean early thirties. You stated that "after 35 we know women's fertility starts to decline a bit." Actually, by 30 a woman's fertility starts to decline dramatically. The caveat here is the time of first conception. Women who started having children young are, on the main, more fertile throughout their lifetimes (meaning that they ovulate more regularly, have more regular periods, produce more viable eggs, and remain fertile through their 40's, etc.). Women who wait until after 30 to conceive for the first time have many more problems than women who had their first child in their early to mid-20's.

You may ask why I am harping on this. It is simply that by the time that these professional women begin to want hearth and home (because they have spent the first 10 years on their career), it is too late to find husbands and start the families. These women think of themselves as being catches but in reality they are damaged goods. They have usually had one or more abortions, they have political and ideological beliefs that are inimicable to a happy home-life, and they are "past the expiration date," age-wise.

[Red Jones]

gee, what you said bears emphasizing; that women can have babies into their 40's, but are much more likely to be able to do so if they started having babies early. But if they don't start early, then by 40 they frequently can't conceive. American women in 1950's had a very strong birth rate in their 40's. But it was women having their 3rd, 4'th or 5'th child.