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Fertility experts can help many 29-32 yr.-old women conceive… but can do little for the 40+ woman. This means that a young woman planning college and career must plan around conceiving her last child before her mid-thirties. Risk of miscarriage doubles and her chromosomes develop abnormalities by her mid-thirties.
In today’s hi-tech world, graduating high school at 18 is often followed by about 10 years earning a doctorate, at a minimum age around 28. In Israel, a 2-3 year stint in the military pushes her to a minimum of 31 – already past the preferred window to find a husband, settle down and have more than one child!
Studies increasingly show that high-income earning women are barren.
Women must deal with their biological clock, recognizing that they cannot follow the male’s career time-clock. The woman must decide what she can reasonable accomplish in her 14 year window between 18 and 32. For women, there’s not a moment to squander. Most successful women with families give birth in their 20s. This necessarily means combining family with career – and, in Israel, with 2-3 years IDF or national service – at an early stage and tough going; but the alternative is no children… and no grandchildren. (Summarized from Time Magazine, 2002.05.20, p. 40ff).
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