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This trend leads to the inevitable question of when the age of being prepared financially for children will cross the point of being unable to bear children physically.

Fifty years ago it was common to have children around eighteen, thirty years ago it was common to have children around twenty five, and now it feels like thirty five is the normal.

This begs the question whether children will be possible before forty five within twenty years, and at that age bearing children becomes a major risk.

Women in large Chinese cities are already feeling unable to balance the pressure of a career and parenthood, opting to not have children at all, or having them very late into adulthood.



Prenatal screening, extracorporal, adoption.




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