While I agree that anyone can choose who to start a family with, regardless of age *on either side*, I don’t know who considers 35 a geriatric pregnancy 😂 If it is the medical establishment, well then I trust that designation even less.

I know countless women who had kids after 35, and they are amazing moms and in healthy relationships.

Often the older moms are actually better moms in many ways, being more mature, more secure in themselves, more experienced in life and in relationship.

The bigger age gap you suggest also can becomes a huge issue later on when the women is just 45 and her husband is 70, or she is 55, still young, and he is 80.

All that aside, if a guy gets to 50 without a wife or kids, perhaps he needs to ask himself why? And once he becomes the person a woman wants to marry, perhaps think twice about purposely trying to put a young woman in a situation where she has a *true* geriatric as a husband when she is in the prime of her life, her 50s!

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Something like 90% of a woman's eggs are gone by 30. Women can absolutely have children after 35 & even after 40, but if you want multiple kids, starting after 35 is definitely not ideal. Aiming to find someone in their late 20s or early 30s is a smarter approach, IMO.

None of that means it's too late for a woman in her middle to late 30s, or that they won't be good mothers or anything like that.

If you want multiple kids, starting at 50 or older for a man makes less sense than a woman starting at 35 for multiple reasons.. not the least being that sperm quality/quantity decreases

If he can't get her pregnant then the problem solves itself. Men who are healthy and take care of themselves have fathered children despite their old age with no issues.

Yes, and so have women ;)

But if you are a man who wants kids, it doesn't make any sense to actively look for a woman who is 40+

If you are a woman who wants kids, the age of potential partners is arguably much less of a concern.