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“At this point, it is important to mention that just like a cousin marriage is a cultural practice in Asian/British Pakistanis heritage, resulting in increasing risk factors for congenital anomalies, so too is choosing to give birth at or after the age 34 in White British women/couples. This is largely a result of choosing lifestyles embedded in liberal values such as preferring jobs, careers, bodily fitness and individualism over giving birth before the age 34. This has been reported as the highest cause in BiB babies born with birth defects (19%) according to BiB data.”
^ from some British health document.
Interesting callout to cultural norms. In large, expensive, western cities, a woman aged 34 to 39 is not considered old by her peers and community. Doctors have a different opinion, calling it a geriatric pregnancy, but they don’t condemn it.
Also interesting, separately, is that the above document seems to call out that white women are at greater risk above 34, which cannot be physiologically true. What they mean I think is that white women are culturally more like to have geriatric pregnancies.
Still, if you go to a big city like NYC, where career is valued above all else, imagine a 35 year old woman saying she’s pregnant and then treating that with the same social stigma we treat marrying your cousin.
For an American woman to be considered a success, under our current typical definition of feminism, she needs to prove she’s built a successful career and started a successful family. Nearly impossible to do both by age 34.