> Children are an amazing experience, but one that does not have to be on someone else’s schedule.<p>Good luck with that attitude when your child is born and requires ALL your attention ALL the time.
I think the author presents his points from strongest to weakest.<p>People have different priorities in life. Just how much someone cares about career, financial, social success really feeds into how they'd weigh these points. I would say the author wants children, but desires money and success more.<p>The point about 'energetic 70 year olds' is cherry picking and really quite weak. Many, if not most, people experience serious physical decline beginning in their late 30s and certainly by the 40s - even with some attention to diet and exercise. I certainly have.
> The dreaded issue of the 'biological clock' is where cryopreservation - or egg freezing - has completely changed the game.<p>Straight from the intro of Idiocracy.<p>And say you have your 1st child in your 40s. What about 2nd and 3rd? It takes 2.1 children per woman to sustain a population. How many 50 year old parents with a 5 year old running around will have the energy for a second child?