Old Theories Oversold

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

"Millions of women are being told when to get pregnant based on statistics from a time before electricity, antibiotics, or fertility treatment."

How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?

Deep anxiety about the ability to have children later in life plagues many women. But the decline in fertility over the course of a woman’s 30s has been oversold. Here’s what the statistics really tell us—and what they don’t.

THEATLN.TC|BY JEAN TWENGE