Tnpseudonym: wow, kind of a hot topic there.
i can only give a personal opinion based on me and what i've done.
My ex and i discussed marrage and children for a while. We were both working, had a savings acct for 'what if's ' and planed our wedding day. He is older than me and was at a point where he was ready for kids, i wasn't yet. But fate and poor planning won that debate for him and along came our first.
I was on doctor's orders not to work because i was an 'at risk' pregnancy and because it was earlier than expected, what we'd managed to save didn't go as far as it could have.
Skip a few years, we have two kids and he's working crap jobs that barely got us thru paycheck to paycheck, i'm looking for work but we can't even afford a babysitter so i have to take less paying jobs to work around his schedule.
skip a few more yrs and i'm a single parent and sole supporter working two jobs and missing seeing my girls grow up.
Personal op? Women shouldn't have kids until THEY are good and ready, and have steady funds weather they work for them or not.
WOW.Is that a real picture on your profile?
I will respond to your post asap.