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| Wed, 07-23-2003 - 3:14pm |
At what age is it best to start a family? (see next post for related question)
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Do you think maternal age is at all related to the likelihood of the mother being a SAHM or a WOHM?
I also have two close friends who chucked their careers now that they are in their 40s - they feel they've worked for over 20 years, and they had kids late (both adopted at least one of their children after fertility problems), so they're entitled to be supported financially and rest on their laurels and SAH.
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Personally, I think that maternal age probably is related to the chances of one being a SAHM or WOHM. It seems that women who wait later to have children tend to wait because they want to do things like complete their educations, or reach a certain point in their careers. These more career-minded women may be more likely to return to work after having children.
Women who start their families younger may not have the time or financial resources to pursue extended educations, and family responsibilities may prevent them from advancing as quickly in their careers (not as available to work overtime, etc). Therefore, the younger women may not feel the same drive to return to work after having kids.
Plus, women who start families younger by choice have probably identified having children as being a priority in their lives, as opposed to women who actively choose to put off children in favor of their careers (presumably having identified career as a priority).
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At this point, forming a strong, lasting relationship with my dh is my priority...so that when we do decide to bring children into our family, we will welcome them into as stable & loving a situation as we can possibly provide. Yes, I enjoy my job & my work with DH, but when we have children, THEY will be our priority, though we both will still WAH ft. Waiting to have children until later in life when one is more mature & better able to handle the responsibility of having a child doesn't indicate that those children are less of a priority than a career, to me.
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