Blog #6- Time

4/10/2024

https://time.com/6965267/women-having-kids-later/

Source: Time 

Analysis:

Overall, this article did not have a strong voice leaning towards the right. The authors did a great job at including all aspects that may lead both women and men to prolong the parental approach and they also included many statistical evidence to back their points up. They even included statistics of people of color and their reasons for holding off on their ideal number of children. I do appreciate how the article lays down information and suggests that perhaps holding off on kids is a good thing and that studies suggest better behaved children. Using evidence of math and that childcare is expensive and many people’s decisions all boil down to money that people have. This article may have a left leaning voice due to the acknowledgement and appreciation of understanding cycles and reproductive advances to prolong fertility in women. Including ideas of health issues and why having children may not be both affordable and safe for the mom seems to have an underlying idea that the mother can choose what she is comfortable with. Exploring that mothers potentially put their health at risk as well as their babies the longer they wait to have kids is an obvious voice in this article. The article does stress that oftentimes postponing creates a new idea of not wanting to have children at all which can be bad in turn for future generations.