Interesting article.Of course, the world population is now 7 billion and counting. So before running out to freeze your eggs (or sperm) one must carefully evaluate whether or not you want to have children. I've met many women (with or without professional careers) who had children because it was "time to do it", or because their husbands, or parents or family, or society, etc. etc. expected that from them.But, deep down, they've told me if it was up to them either they would have less children, only one, or none at all. Even if you decide to become a mother (or father), perhaps adopting a child who has already been born and has no parents (either as an orphan or abandoned child) should preclude bringing a new life, or should be combined with it. Finally, to the ladies in this list, remember that roughly 50 % of women worldwide (estimates might be higher) still don't have any rights or control over their reproduction, have their first child in their teens, soon after their first menstruation, can't choose whether or not to have children, how many, or when to have them.
Sarah Frias-Torres, Ph.D. Schmidt Ocean Institute Postdoctoral FellowOcean Research & Conservation Association (ORCA) 1420 Seaway Drive, Fort Pierce, Florida 34949 USA Tel (772) 467-1600http://www.teamorca.orghttp://independent.academia.edu/SarahFriasTorres > Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 07:54:45 -0700 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Freezing Eggs: Solution for female grad students, > post-docs, early-career researchers? > To: [email protected] > > The article forgot to mention that sperm deteriorate as well, so career-only > men should freeze sperm early too! > https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2006/NR-06-06-01.htmltoo! > https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2006/NR-06-06-01.html > Of course, older women with frozen eggs should try to have kids with a > younger man or one who has some sperm frozen. > Or adopt! > And maybe, if we also had universal health coverage, universal childcare, and > walkable comunities (critical for parental freedom from driving), as some > countries do, and the expectation that fathers are up for co-parenting, as an > ever-increasing number are, we would be able to add nuance to the > family/career dichotomy as a model. > > Rachel O'Malley > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 14, 2012, at 8:25 PM, "Clara B. Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ecolog-l: In recent discussions on this ListServ & elsewhere, some female > > grad students, post-docs, and early-career researchers have expressed > > challenges with "work-life balance", &/or changed priorities when they have > > 1 or more children before achieving a secure academic or comparable > > position in their specialty. Perhaps, freezing eggs for post-tenure or > > comparable status use would solve these problems? See this article [linked] > > from today's *New York Times*. > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/us/eager-for-grandchildren-and-putting-daughters-eggs-in-freezer.html?_r=2&hp > > > > > > > > > > clara b. jones > > Blog: http://vertebratesocialbehavior.blogspot.com > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/cbjones1943
