According to the CDC, more women than ever are waiting to have children until they are 35 or older, when they have completed their educations and are more financially stable, though doctors warn that having children later in life can lead to health complications and other risks. Here are some pros and cons of waiting until later in life to have children:

PROS

Have had more time to judge other people for how they raise their kids

Obligation to one day care for elderly mother psychologically reinforced in child from infancy

Peace of mind from knowing you gave hopes and dreams a fair shot

Have already collected decades of unsubstantiated and dangerous theories on child-rearing

Problems in marriage have had more time to mature

Will hopefully be dead before seeing long-term psychological consequences of parenting manifest in children

Less time spent as a mother

CONS

No daycare facility in your retirement community

Social stigma of a mature parent that can provide for a child

Easier to blame your ruined life on a single night of unbridled passion than on four months of methodically scheduled procreative intercourse

Tough to keep pretending quintuplets are natural

Younger children may resent older siblings for being raised by parents who were still alive

Child born later will be born into objectively worse world

Without the end result of producing offspring and propagating the species, sex will continue to feel hollow and unsatisfying