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Jokes on you, everyone on lemmy are males :(. But hopefully that changes eventually! Crosspost questions for females from there to here!

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How have you balanced career and family in your life? (lemmy.ca)
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I think every woman is forced to grapple with this question as they enter adulthood. What has been your experience? Did you change your priorities at any point?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll add in my own thoughts! One thing is that I personally plan to only have 1 child for exactly this purpose. It feels like a “best of both worlds” - I can experience motherhood with the least amount of downtime in my own career.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was one of the decisions I made too. I’m so happy with it - my kid is amazing, and I feel like we have enough both time and resources to create the kind of childhood I’d want my kid to have. And I still have had the energy to prioritize my career to the extent I wanted.

We have had to ignore quite a few negative comments over the years, about how our kid will be lonely or kids simply must have siblings. And the cliche about how only-children are selfish. Luckily it seems to haven gotten less and our kid has gotten a bit older.