, a Victorian government website, claims that by age 40, the chance of getting pregnant is down to around five per cent.No one can tell us where the data behind these numbers come from.Virtus Health never got back to us.
What's more, this 'definitive' 1950s study was conducted on just 209 women in a remote pocket of the United States.The 'Hutterites' were a group of highly religious folk - similar to the Amish - that lived and conceived naturally. Even the author of the study said those women were very different to other Americans, let alone multicultural Australians some...70 years later.
A 2013 study out of Denmark found just under 80 per cent of women 35 to 40 years old got pregnant naturally within a year of trying to conceive. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows having children in your forties was common in the 1920s, when around 40 out of every 1000 babies was born to a woman aged between 40-44.
TheFeedSBS Why is my tax money being spent to subsidise this bullshit? In a world with 7,700,000,000 people and a country already with too many people to be sustainable, why is having your own child so important? Are the orphanages empty? Self-indulgence.