It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.
It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.
I would probably, in my 60s, be ready to start having kids, as long as I was spared all the stuff about it that doesn't appeal to me. By then, I'd have lost interest in practically everything, so there'd be no opportunity cost involved.
My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom.
I got married to Doug in 2005. I knew that we wanted to delay having children for a while, and I had tried pretty much every hormonal birth control method under the sun.
I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.
In my family, people become pregnant at 33 or something, not 26.
In 1970, the average woman had her first child at 21.4; by 2012, it was almost 26, an age by which many young adults are at least a few years deep into jobs or careers.
I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
Most of my best friends had children in their early 40s.
The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
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.
It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.
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.
I see lots of women having beautiful children later in life. And, if not, just freeze your eggs!
I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.
I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.
There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
For lots of reasons, including working crazy hours and having a job that required significant travel, I did not start trying to have a baby until I was in my late 30s. My experience is hardly unique. I am one of countless women who almost waited too long without realizing it.
My husband was 50; I was in my late 30s. We had lived adulthoods that did not include infants, except as metaphors. And then, like so many in today's America, we had a baby in later life.
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 don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.
Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.
I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.
