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Just freeze your eggs. Far cheaper than having children during the crucial early-career-building phase of your life.
It honestly blows my mind that people rearrange their whole lives around having kids early instead of doing this.
Taking care of kids can be physically demanding (carrying them around, chasing them down, etc.) and I expect it's a lot easier when you are younger.
It's also a lot easier when you can afford assistance.
Wealth isn't an automatic consequence of age (or of a PhD for that matter).
Absolutely true.
Neither is the ability to perform physically demanding tasks an automatic consequence of youth. We're talking about expected values, not guarantees.
And I would certainly agree that someone who doesn't expect their career to increase their earning power over time would have a completely different expected-value calculation around impromptublue's suggestion than someone who does.