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...assess their options now. She says they should look ahead and realize what they want at 45, and if that is a healthy family relationship with children, they need to give priority to finding a serious relationship in their 20s and having their first child in their early 30s. Hewlett emphasizes that she “hates to make this argument,” but that women must realize they all face a biological wall. At age 27 a woman’s ability to carry children begins to decline, and the only way to ensure a family life...
However, Loeb realizes that no matter where her life takes her, she wants to have children “in her 30s, before 35.” In fact, although Hewlett points to an epidemic of women wanting to have children later than biologically possible, many Harvard women set on having a career admit that they do not want to be older parents. Pasha M. Coupet ’02, who is attending Columbia Law School next year, says she will never want to be on a partner track at a law firm because she wants to have children before...
Even the most powerful techniques can turn back a woman's biological clock only so far. Women in their early 30s who want to use their own eggs have a better than 30% chance of delivering a live baby by artificial means. After age 43, the success rate drops to a forbidding...
...born in 1989. Now an administrative assistant, Lowry envies couples who waited to become established. "They built equity in their homes, put some money aside," she says. "We were always behind the eight ball." She advises her 15-year-old daughter to wait until her "late 20s or early 30s" to have children...
...live in the age of extended adolescence. Pop culture is full of characters like Bridget Jones and the Friends gang, waiting until their 30s to start thinking seriously about marriage and kids. But nature still keeps to the same schedule. Many twentysomething mothers and fathers take to the role easily, but others feel they are still kids themselves, and the sudden responsibility can threaten a relationship. "My husband wanted a softball team," jokes Theresa Mathis, 35. She had scarcely graduated from Virginia Tech when the couple built a six-bedroom farmhouse by hand in southwestern Virginia...