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Originally Posted by gars
Honestly though, I know tons of girls who do actually set an age they want to start having kids. Research shows that if you have your first kid before you're 30, you reduce the chance of Down Syndrome quite a bit.
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^This is an increasingly big issue too as women are putting their child bearing off later and later. Not only are they (and the men with them) risking having down syndrome babies but also a plethora of other complications for baby AND mother and that is if their fertility is not hindered by their age (fertility takes a rather steep decline in the mid thirties/early 40s).
Even further then that, women who delay having kids are at far greater risks of many cancers (especially breast and ovarian cancers). Women who don't have kids at all are at further increased chance.
I think men tend to not relate to that given you guys are fairly fertile pretty much all your lives. Girls have a window though they have to shoot for.