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A Super Important But Rarely Discussed Reason To Have Kids Earlier Rather Than Later
My mother, who was born in 1930, received an M.B.A. from Radcliffe and went on to become a stockbroker in the 1960s. (See? There were accomplished women even back then!) But as much as my mother enjoyed her career, she would often say she did things “backward”: “I started my career first, and marriage came much later.”
By Suzanne Venker2 min read
So did motherhood. My mother was 36 when my sister was born and 38 when she had me. More than once, she told me she regretted having children later in life for several reasons – she felt out of step with the younger moms at school and was self-conscious about looking older – but the main one was that she knew she would have less time and energy for my own children when I had them.