So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.
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Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it.
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.
So many people have so much trouble having kids.
It's hard enough to be in a marriage and then have a kid, then kids: it changes everything.
Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.
Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids.
I want children, but I don't necessarily want to be married because I think marriage is very difficult. To have a successful marriage, you have to work hard and regard it as a job.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
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