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The US makes it very difficult on women who choose to have children. Maybe if we provided more support (financially, logistically, hell emotionally) they’d be more apt to have kids earlier. For my wife and I, we weighed the pros and cons and it was clear it was a bad move for us, so we passed.

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> Maybe if we provided more support (financially, logistically, hell emotionally) they’d be more apt to have kids earlier.

The opposite seems to be true; the more support is available, the longer people try to put off childbearing.

This is the case in all of the western world. We push women in the direction of careers and never mention the consequences.

At the same time, while in some ways people are rich these days, we can't seem to find the time or money to have kids. That's not much of a choice. It's more that people react their to circumstances. If anything it's a form of "ethical" birth control.

Whole your theory is based on assumption that women are clueless. Meanwhile, you don't seem to care about cost of various choices to them.

Of course, admitting that maybe women do know all of that and decide to not have kids anyway would be too difficult.

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