A new report from the Statistics Bureau of Sweden shows that the women in the greater Stockholm area wait longer and longer before starting a family and giving birth.
According to the statistics, the number of women who give birth to their first child when they are over 40 years old has jumped 39% in the past five years.
The suburbs Danderyd and Lidingö (both very fancy areas in Stockholm, not just ANY old suburbs) have the highest number of senior moms, 12.5% first time moms in Danderyd and 11% in Lidingö are over 40 years of age.
The Statistics Bureau of Sweden explains these numbers with the fact that “more women today want to focus on their careers before starting a family”.
I guess they are right in this assumption, or at least half right…
Before starting bringing children into the world, it DOES help if you are able to provide for them, am I right? Sometimes you can’t exactly PLAN a pregnancy, but it certainly helps if you have a career going, you know where you stand on the job market, you have the money, and now maybe you have the TIME that it takes to be a parent…
Today it isn’t seen as strange if someone waits before starting to have children – or to get married, for that matter.
In the past, it was courting, engagement (and the date for the wedding was almost set already when they got engaged), marriage, be a good little house wife (any hopes and dreams for themselves that the women might have had, they just gave them all up) and then start popping out the heirs…, preferably all this should happen before the age of 25, after that age, what man could possibly want you?!?
The way people look at relationships might also have something to do with it. Today in Sweden, many couples live together without being engaged or married, and the amount of “dating services” popping up all over the place might indicate that this whole relationship thing isn’t too easy to figure out anymore… You have to be a VERY strong woman in order to make the decision to have a child all on your own – but no matter how you look at it, a man HAS to be involved SOMEWHERE in the process!
Some women want to wait having children until they know they are in a relationship that will LAST, and how do you know when you have that relationship, really? You just have to wait and see – right?
“Any man can become a father, but not every man is cut out to be a Dad…”
The same goes for women, really. Maybe these women choose to wait until they feel emotionally ready to become mothers – it IS a big responsibility, so why not wait until you have lived your life, done everything you wanted, when you’re ready to settle down.
Maybe these women over 40 have made such a good career for themselves that they don’t have TIME to think about having children… until their biological clock starts ticking…
Maybe these highly educated and probably high positioned women make men feel intimidated in a way, who knows… The reasons why people don’t get involved in relationships and start reproducing are just so very many, you really have to look at the individual to understand the statistics…
This report focuses on the Stockholm area, but I think that all major cities (which is where the big business is) in Sweden see the same thing – women wait longer and longer before having children, maybe not all of them wait until they are well over 40, but at least until they have made a career.
And with modern science and technology it isn’t really “too late” for women of a certain age to have babies anymore… Hormone treatments and what ever else means that the biological clock can be tweaked – we’ve all read about women having children at VERY high ages!
However, there are still risks involved with waiting to have children until you are over that magic fertile age, the risk of something being wrong with the child increases the older the mother is. I’m not trying to scare you into having babies before you’re ready, it’s just the way things are…
As long as you are healthy and strong enough to keep up with things, as long as you can be a good parent to your child, well then – if you want to wait, it’s up to you, really!
Oh – and a 40 something Mom, to me that sounds a LOT more fair to the child than a 60 something Dad – men don’t really have the same biological clock ticking!
We read in the gossip magazines about how, in show business and so on, these older men meet VERY much younger women and have children with them, and just how much is a 60+ dad (sometimes a LOT of pluses!) going to participate?!?
“Daddy, play ball!” – Daddy can’t even walk properly without a cane, much less play ball or crawl around on the floor!
A woman in her forties can still MOVE AROUND, at least…
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I am a 53 year old American male and I have never got a woman pregnant.I would like to get a Swedish woman in her early forties pregnant.we could be parents for the first time in our lives.