Comments by "Granny Annie" (@grannyannie2948) on "How to Increase Birth Rates? Should Women Put Family Before Career? What about Engineered Babies?" video.

I was a stay at home mother from when I fell pregnant with my first child until my middle thirties. I was only ever criticized by childless women in middle management. And then in my forties I became a grandmother and stayed home to babysit them. Now in my fifties I receive more criticism than I ever did in my youth.
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 @borderlands6606 I'm not sure if this statistic gets mentioned later, but if a woman is childless at 30 there is only a 50% chance of her ever having a baby. Every girl should know this.
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Women need to make different life decisions. You have the whole of your life to get an education or to have a career. You have 18-25 to find a good bloke and have a first baby.
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Immigration is the problem, at least for the housing crisis in Australia. I advise young people to move rurally, but housing is going up there as well.
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@janemayor9210 I'm glad you have no regrets. But you are sadly a statistical minority. And what is more of a character building experience than raising children? As you say they become your major focus. I made very different decisions. I married young and had my children 19-25. I went to university when the youngest started school, about the age of 30. There were tons of women my age and older. My husband and I have travelled extensively in our 30s and 40s. Our daughters have adopted my strategy, and I now have six school aged grandkids and we are all planning a month of travel later this year. One of my daughters, with her husband and kids is currently on holiday in Japan. I have no regrets either.
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@borderlands6606 It's like the fall of Rome when the Romans stopped having children, as economic migrants took over the city. But rurally things continued. I live in rural Australia and most people, even those in their twenties, thirties and forties, have 2-6 kids. This includes the well educated, such as the GPs. But most are working class living in three bedroom houses. Not uneducated or welfare class, but trained trades people earning $80-100,000.
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Amen
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@robm8809 And great that you say that. What a great husband sincerely.
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@wolfhugs2221 You obviously haven't been to a maternity hospital. Women have not left hospital in wheelchairs since the 1950s. With my deliveries we were encouraged to be mobile within an hour or so. How else do you suppose you go to the toilet or have a shower. If everything goes normally you leave hospital within 4-12 hours of giving birth. And unless you refuse pain relief, a part from a kind of period cramp in the beginning, it can be entirely painless. Don't speak nonsense.
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@heyhey9182 I'm sorry to state the obvious, but dad's aren't biologically equipped to provide for a babies needs. Nor do I think I would respect a "stay at home Dad." I like men to be men. Nor do I think you've been a mother. Most women find it very painful to be separated from their babies for long. And why is 18-25 the best time to begin a career? You might get a job at 18, but it won't be a job you love. And why would you waste the period of your life when you are drop dead gorgeous at university having casual sex? Plenty of time for university After you've had babies. As I explained to Jane above, in my country only foreign students live on campus. Everyone else commutes as you would for a job. And they are all ages, many in their 50s and a very baby friendly environment. When I finally got my degree I went straight to the top, because of my age and real life experience, so I was the superior of all those 21 yo wanting a career. I retired at 45 and now I'm surrounded by grandkids. I know you won't believe me, but children are much more satisfying than a career.
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