Egg freezing is great, and also I think many people should just have kids at a young age instead if able.
I worry that some people who would be very happy having children when they are young choose not to simply because it is not what their peers are doing / it’s not seen as normal, rather than because of the genuine tradeoffs with career etc (which are less significant than they often seem!)
I worry about this too. One of my biggest concerns with embryo selection is that people in certain social circles will come to believe that you’re only a responsible parent if you have children via embryo selection, and that if they can’t they just won’t have them.
I think the best solution to this long term is to just make the tech really cheap and broadly available. But I also think we should try to encourage people to have more kids. Babies are great!
Egg freezing is great, and also I think many people should just have kids at a young age instead if able.
I worry that some people who would be very happy having children when they are young choose not to simply because it is not what their peers are doing / it’s not seen as normal, rather than because of the genuine tradeoffs with career etc (which are less significant than they often seem!)
I worry about this too. One of my biggest concerns with embryo selection is that people in certain social circles will come to believe that you’re only a responsible parent if you have children via embryo selection, and that if they can’t they just won’t have them.
I think the best solution to this long term is to just make the tech really cheap and broadly available. But I also think we should try to encourage people to have more kids. Babies are great!