On the other hand, if you don't do that and end up unemployed, an entire faction will be out to condemn you for having a child you can't support.

I'm just entering my late 30's, and this made my decision for me - I didn't feel good about my resources the last few years and now this? It just got A LOT harder to see myself having kids - at this rate the clock is going to run out before I feel good.

A large majority of people in their late thirties have already established a family, they wont show up in statistics.

Wow. I just checked the average age of motherhood in the USA and it's 26yo. That's 6 years less than in the country I'm living; perhaps my intuitions about what it's normal in a modern society are heavily skewed (and in my social circles it's even worse, with age if motherhood around 35yo, largely due to effects caused precarious work)

Quick google search says that not true its a bit higher for the us.

Its also bimodal https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/04/upshot/up-bir...

Edit: I actually think i confused my self with the age of first birth and age of parents, ignore that first line

The grand parent comment probably made the same mistake because there isn't any country where the mean mother age at first birth is 32 or 33, that is, 6 years more than US 26.3 or 26.9 (depending on sources).

Yes, indeed I took the average age of the mother of any birth and not the average age for the birth of the First child.

Official Italian ISTAT report for claims 31.1 for mother age at first birth. Still significantly higher than US fwiw.

fertility clock was made up by fertility clinics, they say it's declining sharply, doubeling the rate at which bad things can happen to the child if u get it in ur 50ies, but it's going from 0,1 to 0,3 or so, it's really low if someone's healthy in her fifties and still has eggs left