Biological Clocks Keep on Ticking, What's a Girl To Do?

I agree people need to be questioning why they have kids at all. Women should never have kids unless they are ready for the responsibility of them... you can't really be 3 people at once. Don't have a kid unless you want to be a good mother. Same for fathers. Hopefully things will improve for both!

damn..seventeen going on eighteen and half my eggs are done man..fml...i think if you plan on having children get as financially stable as quickly as possible, then have children before your well dries up.

So this means women only have about 210 eggs, total. ?

society ought to rethink why it's having children in the first place. Can anyone give me a couple reasons why we choose to reproduce, or under what circumstances you believe it is responsible to reproduce?

that's all we need , Jesus thousands of them running around born from virgin feminist. brainwashing the world again.

I think adoption is a great idea, but it's also a hard topic. When someone has such a desire to have their own children and the only option is to find help to make that happen, it's hard to dismiss. While there are plenty of children out there that are in need of adoption, some parents wish to wait, and in doing so, need to enlist the help of a doctor.

this problem could be solved if women had ore sex with strange men. the stranger the better.

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I cannot believe I found this today, I was actually having this conversation with my husband the other day. According to this article it seems that I am overly optimistic that our bodies will adapt to our lifestyle of waiting until we're 30-35 to have our first child, at least not any time in my lifetime. Despite the fact that this does make me want to throw a temper tantrum, I think I will take the high road and go store my eggs- see ya later buddies.

A little chlorine in your gene pool sounds like it would be a better idea.

So, for example, every woman gets three husbands and every man gets three wives. That should strengthen the gene pool and extend the benefits of inclusion in the group to so broad a group that everyone is related (so they don't see each other as a threat) yet there is minimal risk of inbreeding. This would also tend to self regulate the population. A modest proposal

Yes adopt. There are enough already. And let's rethink the "Nuclear" family itself while we're at it. It takes a whole village to bring up baby. Nuclear = isolated and competitive. Extended = cooperative and inclusive sharing.

I think we should adopt.

I think you've brought up an excellent question. And it's something I've been thinking about the last couple of years as my husband and I discuss our future in raising a family of our own. I am not totally against the assistance of science when it comes to fertility, however, it's just not for me. I believe if I can't get pregnant naturally, no matter what age, then I just wasn't meant to bear a child. And if that's the case, it is my "destiny" (I guess you could say) to save the life of another child who was otherwise not wanted, i.e., adopt.

But if a woman insists on using a doctor to help her get pregnant, than so be it. I just view child birth as a very natural occurrence and it shouldn't be tampered with.