Sarah McCammon

She said, I would like to have a kid, but I cannot find a man, she's in her 30s in Finland, a man that I feel comfortable having a child with.

And so that's a little bit different than what you're asking about, Brittany, but I do think that the technology is shaping the way we think about all of these things.

Yes, you know, this was something I heard from researchers that we talked to this idea that that the bar to become a parent to be ready to be good enough has somehow shifted.

And I'm not sure what that's about.

But I think it's a real perception.

And yes, there is a lot of data that suggests that working mothers do, you know,

just the lion's share of the domestic labor as well as the economic labor.

And I can tell you firsthand, it's a lot to shoulder, especially when children are young.

And often women are having their babies at a time when they're still building their careers.

So just because of the way biology works, those things tend to happen fairly concurrently.

And we do see women waiting longer, of course, to have kids.

children for that reason.

But that appears to be one of the reasons that the birth rate has declined.

You wait longer, you're going to have less opportunity to have children.

Even with reproductive technology, there are limitations.

So, you know, there's an awful lot going on.

And I think just the, we keep talking about the burden and the challenge of being a parent.

It's very real.

And, you know, for a number of decades now, women have had more choices than ever before.

between the advent of contraception and the cultural changes that came with the women's movement, more professional and educational opportunities for women.