ok. I can't resist responding because I just find the whole topic too interesting. In my own very personal experience I think I had three serious marriage proposals in my early twenties. I also got pregnant twice and my boyfriends badly wanted to keep the babies. But since I was following the party line of "not…

seems very fair given that she mostly supported him for the first ten years of their relationship.

I didn't say they did (with IVF). The risk goes up three fold. Pretty substantial. I am not a biologist presently though I do have a degree in biology. And I do consider myself respectable. Younger privileged mothers would get the same level of prenatal care theoretically (you are conflating factors). I actually…

I am saying maybe we have been told a false tale and sold a false dream that we can somehow establish a career in our early twenties, make enough money, and then have babies before we have to start IVF treatments. All the of the statistics you talk about and don't cite are so riddled with correlation based fallacies…

I don't think it's ridiculous at all to separate out class and income factors when talking about the success of a child. Largely, women pursuing corporate careers are going to be educated and come from relatively well off backgrounds (there are not going to be any high school drop outs or really poor people pursuing…

http://www.chop.edu/healthinfo/pre… It's actually kind of staggering how dramatically the risk of chromosomal abnormalities goes up between ages 23 to 35. At 23, a woman has a 1/1300 chance of having a down syndrome baby, at 35 it goes to 1/350. Meanwhile, the correlation between a mother's age and the success of a…

scientists make spelling mistakes too! I actually do have a degree in biology, so thanks.

Yeah, but I think the money part is a lot about establishing job security and the idea that you will be able to pay for the most expensive years of child rearing that come later anyway.

Sounds to me like they are talking about pregnancies.

Right after the actual direct link between a mother's rising age and a rise in cromosomal disorders.

Right, the idea is that you will establish a career first so you can support a child through college not that you will actually have so much money to buy all the extra diapers. The first years are not the most expensive years. Also, many people have partners in college and then break up with them because they don't…

ok now for some real politik for women who want to have corporate careers and babies. I know it goes against the grain, but what if women had babies right after college and then started their corporate careers instead of waiting for the "right" time?

Words cannot express how much I love this. Women should be sueing for all the money they could have earned before their careers get systematically destroyed by sexism.

Amen, Lana. Amen.

go to hell Mark Duplass! his tweet makes me so mad. what does he know about the lives of these women other than at some point they wanted to get fucked by Mark Duplass.

why can't we just pay servers a flat rate plus 10% service charge like every other sensible place?

or an Au Carrot rather

I have to agree with John Mayer on this one

ok. I take it back. term was invented by Alice Walker. I am down with her. thanks for not biting my head off.

I am bemused at the use of the word "colorism" in this article as if we need another word to describe racism. You do realize that what we talk about as race in this country is skin color? That there is no real such thing as race?