Women who were mums in their 20s

摘要

'I wonder if people are too focused on planning their careers now. I had my first baby at 19 and my second at 21, and I was on such low wages as an articled clerk that the children qualified for free school meals. 'It wasn't easy but I had a lot of energy and never worried much about the future. Life is about so much more than just your job.' 'I don't want to judge and it's unfair that women rather than men have to make a binary choice about whether or not to have children in their late 30s. But there is never a "perfect" time, and I'm not sure that you can think of children as a kind of project that you can fit in around the rest of your life.'