Women are criticized no matter what decisions they make. This is a way that patriarchy reinforces itself.

Edit: relevant essay: https://www.sevanoland.com/uploads/1/1/8/0/118081022/there_is_no_unmarked_woman.pdf

This was reported as misinformation, so I'm going to take this opportunity to set it straight:

Your peak reproductive years tend to fall between your late teens and your late 20s

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/best-age-to-get-pregnant

When society and biology don't align, we get a birthrate crisis.

Who could've ever predicted making it very hard financially to be young person and making it practically impossible to buy a house and start a family would mean people stop having families /s

Pregnancies in teenagers carry additional risk. The healthiest age range for women to be birthing babies is a little higher than 18-20. More like 20-30.

My understanding was that the best time for women to have children was between 20-30 years old, not 18-20.

From what I've read, 20-30 is when women have most of their eggs at the best quality, and have the lowest health risk in pregnancy.

Where does the 18-20 come from? Like I guess you're most fertile at 20 but that's the only metric I can see thats best at 20. Hell, a lot of sources even say you have the best chance of natural conception in your late 20s.

It would be cool if we changed society just a little to help with this.

Not so much that it affects the rich though. That would be asking too much.

18-20 is not the "typical age for healthy children", it's in the oldest part of not being that and very youngest part of it. No one that young should have children anyway. Your, objectively wrong, view of this borders on very creepy.

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Old science fiction novel. "Podkayne of Mars" by Robert Heinlein.

In the future Martian colonial women are encouraged to get married young and have a bunch of kids. The children are placed in cryogenic stasis until the parents can afford to raise them.

My wife had a hysterectomy due to extreme endometriosis a few years ago. We had a Yeeterus party. Our friend made a uterus shaped piñata to bash.

Someone asked us if we're planning kids at some party recently and some other friend quickly said "you shouldn't ask questions like that, it's rude. you don't know what people could be going through". The other person simply said "you're right" and moved on.

People are slowly learning.

Yup! My ex had this happen to her all the time especially from a church community we were part of. She would always say her doctor advised her not to have kids and if that didn’t work she’d go into detail about her body and why the doctor said she’d have problems carrying a child. Most would stop there but there were still some that would give her the “don’t you believe in miracles if you have faith?” type responses. We left the church after it kept happening.

Dude sweet shes not pregnant

Dude sweet shes not pregnant

Dude sweet shes not pregnant

Lets try for a baby fuck my balls dont work

Lets try for a baby fuck my balls dont work

Lets try for a baby fuck my balls dont work

Oh sweet my balls work!

Dude sweet shes not pregnant

Dude sweet shes not pregnant

We’re a never pregnant by choice couple is and it’s a non-stop onslaught of “you’ll change your minds.”

We won’t. It’s been many years and we have no interest. Doesn’t stop friends/family/strangers asking about it constantly.

We enjoy our disposable income, free time, and naps without alarms. I show up to work well rested everyday surrounded by coworkers we’re are exhausted, overextended, and barely getting by. Not exactly the selling point people think it is.