According to the CDC, more women than ever are waiting to have children until they are 35 or older, when they have completed their educations and are more financially stable, though doctors warn that having children later in life can lead to health complications and other risks. Here are some pros and cons of waiting until later in life to have children:
PROS
Have had more time to judge other people for how they raise their kids
Obligation to one day care for elderly mother psychologically reinforced in child from infancy
Peace of mind from knowing you gave hopes and dreams a fair shot
Have already collected decades of unsubstantiated and dangerous theories on child-rearing
Problems in marriage have had more time to mature
Will hopefully be dead before seeing long-term psychological consequences of parenting manifest in children
Less time spent as a mother
CONS
No daycare facility in your retirement community
Social stigma of a mature parent that can provide for a child
Easier to blame your ruined life on a single night of unbridled passion than on four months of methodically scheduled procreative intercourse
Tough to keep pretending quintuplets are natural
Younger children may resent older siblings for being raised by parents who were still alive
Child born later will be born into objectively worse world
Without the end result of producing offspring and propagating the species, sex will continue to feel hollow and unsatisfying
