I appreciate your articles and hope all can find a path within their fertility journeys. That being said, I can stop but have an odd taste after realising that what we are doing is: normalising that the system penalises woman for having families.
The tech advancements seem like "freedom" but in reality, we are just trading-off having a family when we want to FOR a successful career. Even when accepting and navigating the pay gap.
It is insane that during a record-profit decade, corporations still have an issue providing care for the employees that decide on having a family, even when modern families have, at most, 2 kids per household.
Hope this isn't a negative comment, just thinking outside the box a bit about real solutions.
Consider that the solution might be teen pregnancy coupled with multi-generational households with grandparents doing much of the childcare while the parents finish school and pursue their careers. It’s a very old fashioned approach and one that honors biology while valuing contributions from the whole age spectrum of the family.
Lovely. Well done. And all the best
Thank you, Misha. You too
whoa, this parenthetical in paragraph one immediately stood out to me:
"and perhaps even worse, we do not have good ways of telling how much it declines for any individual woman"
I hope someone is working on that problem--seems very high-ROI
I mean there's AMH but it's quite imperfect and by the time you find out you have low AMH it's already kinda bad
Your writing is excellent. And as a fellow cell-sorting guy, long days of sorting can be very tedious. I'm glad you made the most of it!
haha thank you :)
Very nice :)
I appreciate your articles and hope all can find a path within their fertility journeys. That being said, I can stop but have an odd taste after realising that what we are doing is: normalising that the system penalises woman for having families.
The tech advancements seem like "freedom" but in reality, we are just trading-off having a family when we want to FOR a successful career. Even when accepting and navigating the pay gap.
It is insane that during a record-profit decade, corporations still have an issue providing care for the employees that decide on having a family, even when modern families have, at most, 2 kids per household.
Hope this isn't a negative comment, just thinking outside the box a bit about real solutions.
I hadn't considered before that supporting someone's Substack or Patreon is a bit like a micro grant. 🤔 I hope you continue not stopping. 😉
Consider that the solution might be teen pregnancy coupled with multi-generational households with grandparents doing much of the childcare while the parents finish school and pursue their careers. It’s a very old fashioned approach and one that honors biology while valuing contributions from the whole age spectrum of the family.
Love this ❤️
I have felt the same gratitude to Brad DeLong and Rodger Peilke who often "like" my takes on their Substacks, although I never write just praise.