Not disagreeing with your point, but women can have children until menopause. It gets riskier and harder but not as much as most people commonly believe. “Biological clock” is a largely made up concept.
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sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 weeks agoWomen have a biological clock on them, makes no sense waiting for different admin.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
kiagam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Isn’t menopause the clock?
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Pretty sure when people use that term they’re not thinking “I can usually have a baby at 55”.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The biological clock exists, and it is real. But it ends at a time where no reasonable person should seriously consider having a first child.
For most women menopause starts around 45 and the last period happens around 49-55. That’s the hard limit.
Between 30-45 having kids is most often possible, though it’s getting more difficult and the chance for things like trisomy 21 is increasing exponentially with increasing age.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I directly know multiple people who had to get what were effectively late term abortions due to pregnancy complications that would’ve put their lives at risk otherwise. We don’t live in the US, so they were fortunate to be able to get the medical care they needed, but it underscores the scariness of the situation in the US; these risks mean that becoming pregnant in the wrong place could literally be a life or death matter. If treatment is received, even people who experience severe complications may be able to have a successful pregnancy in future. Not having access to these things risks breaking the biological clock anyway, so waiting is not unreasonable.