Putting your family in suspended animation

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Here's a radical idea: freeze your eggs so you can have your career now, and family later.

I can see why this could be appealing for a competitive career like science, where you're expected to work like a dog until you get tenure. At the same time, is it really healthy for a mother to undergo pregnancy and labor in her 50s? or even 60s? Besides, if you're a downtrodden postdoc, you're unlikely to have the money to extract and freeze your eggs anyway.

Is it really so hard to balance family and career that you have to resort to such extreme measures? Possibly. But it shouldn't be that way.

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Considering how expensive it is, it seems unlikely to be a viable option for most women right out of college. And it seems unfair for the woman to be bearing the brunt of the expense. Yes, I know women bear the brunt of the burden for childbearing in general, but this only seems to add to the burden, rather than lightening it.