While I think the trend toward delayed parenthood is a big problem & maternal age is the best indicator for that, this is not a lady problem. I don’t even think this mess has much to do w feminism or tinder. Cultural pessimism, memes about parents + deranged norms do the trick
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As Bryan Caplan has argued, the transition from 0 to 1 children is many times more costly than 1 to 2, or 2 to 3. When most people delay childbearing to the very end of the 1.5 decade span of decent fertility, society has many fewer children at a much higher cost
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and yet we place disproportionate pressure on women to have children at a younger age, as opposed to men. sure, there are some biological reasons for this. but the vast majority of women who freeze their eggs cite “lack of stable partner” as the reason. not their careers.
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