Do girls stop wanting children after educated or value children less because they value education?

Answer 1

I don't think so.

They may just put it off 'til a little later.

At this point in my life, I'm seeing a lot of women have children in their 30s to early 40s. I think they want children very much, but they also want to be established and secure before they have the children.

I too would love to have children, but I'm going to wait until I'm at least working on my doctorate, that'll be in my 30s.

Answer 2

Good question! I think often women with education don't feel a need for children because they have major careers in their future and would prefer focusing on that. Especially since they have invested time and money into that future. I know I don't want kids because I feel I have better things to live and work for (only in a personal sense, not saying having children is not important or less valued!). Also, a lot of women without a great deal of education are raised to get married and have kids. Its the american progression into adult hood. We're brainwashed into believing the perfect life is to get married, have kids, have a house in suburbia, and wait for grandkids while sitting infront of the tv. Too brutally honest?

Answer 3

No, it's neither of the two. I'm an attorney now (so a total of 20 years of school), and I still want AND value children. Very educated people tend to value their careers a lot. Thus, they want to hold off on having children until they're finished with school and are established in their career. It's not that they don't want or value kids, they just want to be established themselves before they add another human being into the equation.

Answer 4

I have two masters degrees from UC Davis. And I still wanted kids and I have a son who is almost 3 and 1 due in Dec. I think the thing with me was that I waited to get married and got my education out of the way first, worked for a while, got married, and then had kids. My family is the most important thing in my life. In fact it is so important that I stopped being in the work force and now I am a stay at home mom. Which is the most important job in the world and the hardest job in the world. Stay at home moms work more than women who go to work out of the home.

Answer 5

I think educated women see the value of education. Intellectual value, economic value, social value, etc. Once you understand how much more earning power and stability you have by virtue of your education, you want to be sure that you can provide the same for your children.

So you have fewer of them and bear them a little later in life so you can devote more resources of ALL kinds to them.

That's not not wanting kids or devaluing them.

Answer 6

I don't think they stop wanting them. It just becomes a bit harder, because she has the chance for a career and a child would ihibit what she worked so hard for. However what my fiance and i are going to do is when we do have children the one who has the lowest paying career will be the stay at home parent. A lot of women love their career and fear losing it when they have a baby, the man needs to realize that he may have to ake sacrifices as well and not pin it all on the woman.

Answer 7

after most girls get their ed, they feel like they have to DO something w/their life, and kids take the back seat, so to speak. it's really a shame. I don't think we girls or women value kids less, but they definately see them as in the way of the selfish life they want to live.

Answer 8

I guess neither of them. Deep question and I don't know the answer ;-)