there is a background to the question that I am going to ask you all… here it is…
here is part of an article which was published on Chowk this week:
" A thirty-five year old, very smart woman gets off her car and enters the office. She is on a very good position there. Several young, female juniors gaze at her attire and style with awe and envy. Then one of them comments,
“She is so beautiful and speaks well also…wonder why she is not married yet.”
Another adds, “Yeah, there is nothing wrong with her I guess. I mean, why wouldn’t any man like her?”
And the real story behind it all was that she simply did not think that marriage was her cup of tea. But who would believe that?
A third one says, “If she doesn’t get married now, she won’t find any match later.”
The first one remarks, “May be there is some sad love-story behind it all.”
Well, who cares? Who has the time to think about anyone’s personal life? But then the gossip did continue… "
and following is one of the reply it got regarding this particular example:
I hope this 35 yo smart woman is not ignorant about medical facts about having babies after 35 years of age. At 40 overall chance of a child becoming born with a genetic defect is 4 times the chance at 35 years. So unless she plans on remaining unmarried throughout her life she must become medical literate and inform herself about these facts.
Also, if she plans on remaining unmarried and also not adopt a child she should become finance literate unless she earns huge money and saves.
so the question is :
how many of you will consider getting married just for the sake of having kids or because you are getting worried about the “age factor”? is it even right considering marriage for such reasons???