“Women are no longer marrying the boy they met in high school,” Fisher says. “They’re concerned with getting a career before they marry. This takes time.”<\/p>\n
But this is time on the biological clock that cannot be recaptured.<\/p>\n
Most U.S. mothers, including Scruby Boggs, have paying jobs. She says that she and her husband, Michael, share the household chores.<\/p>\n
The family could get by on her husband’s income, Scruby Boggs says, and she doesn’t want to spend too much time away from daughter. But, she says, “I like contributing to our income, and I like the intellectual challenge of going to work and my job.”<\/p>\n
Scruby Boggs admits she might feel differently if she weren’t able to work part of the time from home and rely on relatives for baby-sitting. “I leave Ayda with either of her grandmothers when I’m at work,” she says.<\/p>\n
Fisher, of Rutgers, predicts that society will more fully accommodate women’s needs and biological realities.<\/p>\n