The "infertile after 35" myth

[Magical Realist]

This I did not know! I guess I was duped by the fearmongering corporate world..

https://www.facebook.com/CollegeHumor/vi...YwMTYwMDI/

[C C]

Fer sure. Don't even shout hooray when perimenopause is looming around the corner, and start feeling that the fertility wagon is creaking along so bad that it's safe to jump on the younger French poet in town, for a mid-life liaison: Émilie du Châtelet.

After she died circa six days after childbirth, no surprise that "the academician" soon moved on to a spouse in another pre-arranged marriage, and lived to be 86. Typical. Would this guy even be mentioned in history if it he hadn't been Émilie's doom?

Nah. Though he doesn't feature prominently in the contributor list of Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie, he did write articles for it.

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[Secular Sanity]

I see some of my friends having children at my age. I can't even imagine. There's a lot of work involved. I know one guy that was a Mormon that had seven kids. He left his wife for a twenty year old that convinced him to have his vasectomy reversed. She had twins and then they split up. His child support is outrageous. Now he's living with some other girl. Hopefully, he's learned his lesson.

[Syne]

I see some of my friends having children at my age.  I can't even imagine.  There's a lot of work involved.  I know one guy that was a Mormon that had seven kids.  He left his wife for a twenty year old that convince him to have his vasectomy reversed.  She had twins and then they split up.  His child support is outrageous.  Now he's living with some other girl.  Hopefully, he's learned his lesson.

Hopefully the women learned their lesson. Oh wait, women aren't expected to have any agency of their own...hence the child support.

[Secular Sanity]

...hence the child support.

What do you mean by that?

[Syne]

...hence the child support.

What do you mean by that?

The unequal expectation of responsibility.