Childbearing Decisions Quotes

I always wanted children late; I had my first daughter at 39 and the second at 45.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Fertility should be shared between a husband and wife.

As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people.

The problem of burgeoning population can be addressed if we begin with women itself. And, we need to educate them and spread awareness about birth control and family planning through TV channels and newspapers.

Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

The more affluent women become, the less likely they are to have more children

I do think it was fantastic to have a kid young. My friends now are all panicking if they haven't found somebody to have kids with. It was never like that for me because I already had the kid!

I remember back in the '90s, I used to feel criticized by women for not having children. Like there must be something wrong with me.

As a woman of a certain age - and really, ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public debate - I've been told over and over again that I will 'change my mind' about not wanting kids.

Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.

I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.

When it comes to having children or not having children, I don't think we realise how many women have to deal with things quietly.

But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.

If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.

I think a lot of women feel pressure to have kids, especially when you get engaged. And for me, I'm like, I don't want that pressure on myself.

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 was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.

I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.

Stop baby shaming people to make us feel like there's something wrong with us if we don't want children.

And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.

Even if you've gone through an average childhood, you have girlfriends who get pregnant and then have to choose whether or not to have a child. And this stuff certainly makes you think about what you're taking on. I certainly want to have children, but I could never do it until I felt I loved myself enough, and wanted to bring someone into the world because I had some kind of security.

When you take away healthcare from women, you're keeping women out of the workforce because you're eliminating their choice of when to start a family.