‘The desire to have a child never goes away’: how the involuntarily childless are forming a new movement
News from back in 2018...
"‘The desire to have a child never goes away’: how the involuntarily childless are forming a new movement" is framed partially correctly and partially incorrect. The real story is, "A lot of women prefer banging hot guys who don't care much about them more than they want a family with a boring dude."
Until it's too late. Biology is a cruel master and pretty much no one in college and universities explains it… and we see women who don't understand that their own actions have consequences.
I read this a day after posting "Catch and release women who want families." I personally know some of these involuntarily childless women, who waited too long. On the surface they often say they didn't want children anyway, or it just "never happened." "It just never happened" is a typical phrase players know well: for a lot of women, "it just happened" or "it just didn't happen." They have no agency. They're just a pinball in the world of men. Some women, however, prioritize.
A seduction artist's job is to make things appear to "just happen." That many women deny their own agency used to baffle me, until I realized that men and women have some key biological and psychological differences that create different outcomes, on average... I have met very driven, self-aware women. But that is not the median woman.
Most women cannot have a fulfilled life without children. They prioritize, often unconsciously, the wrong parts of their life, and then they're surprised when age catches up with them. The median woman reports wanting 2-3 kids. But the median 22-yr-old woman doesn’t seem to be working backwards from that goal.
Also… half of Americans will be obese by age 35. Think about that and what it means for fertility. Fat women cannot attract the kind of man they'd want to have kids with. Women and men are about equally fat, so women can’t take the blame here.
About "The median woman reports wanting 2-3 kids... But the median 22-yr-old woman doesn’t seem to be working backwards from that goal...":
I suppose the first problem here is that wanting something in a general sense is not the same as setting a goal.
Next, setting a goal is not the same as working out (backwards) what needs to happen in order to get there....
And that's before considering the effort involved with actually doing what it takes.
As far as I have seen, it's not just median 22-yr-old women who are having trouble formulating goals, working out the steps to reach them, and implementing said steps. It seems to be an issue afflicting a great part of the population.