"Among women under 30 who want children, the top six reasons given for not planning to have one in the next two years include: wanting to grow as a person, saving money, focusing on career, believing kids require intense care, and — tied — having no suitable partner and wanting more leisure."
That women experience more intense “baby fever” than men should be totally unsurprising, especially for anyone acquainted with women in their ‘30s (“tik-tok, tik-tok”).
Women's desire for babies is more time-based than men. Men can sire babies essentially until they die. Women, on the other hand, go through menopause. So in order to have as many babies as they’d like, they have to start earlier.
There are other factors as well. Women usually have a bigger hand in raising children than men, so having a late baby may be more taxing on women than men.
But of course, I strongly suspect that this is genetic, not a rational calculation.
"Canadian women want more children than they're having"
(https://financialpost.com/opinion/opinion-canadian-women-want-more-children-than-theyre-having)
"Among women under 30 who want children, the top six reasons given for not planning to have one in the next two years include: wanting to grow as a person, saving money, focusing on career, believing kids require intense care, and — tied — having no suitable partner and wanting more leisure."
That women experience more intense “baby fever” than men should be totally unsurprising, especially for anyone acquainted with women in their ‘30s (“tik-tok, tik-tok”).
This has always been obvious, up until obvious things fell out of fashion.
Excellent. This is my favorite kind of Caplan post.
Women's desire for babies is more time-based than men. Men can sire babies essentially until they die. Women, on the other hand, go through menopause. So in order to have as many babies as they’d like, they have to start earlier.
There are other factors as well. Women usually have a bigger hand in raising children than men, so having a late baby may be more taxing on women than men.
But of course, I strongly suspect that this is genetic, not a rational calculation.