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Facebook and Apple will help female employees freeze their eggs.

McArdle has a good point that parenting isn't necessarily going to become easier in ones 40s and 50s than in the 20s and 30s. The other thing that bugs me about the whole debate is the portrayal of having children as this terrible burden and career-blocker. I imagine most of the folks in the position to take advantage of freezing their eggs are high-achieving and self-described ass-kicking individuals -- and yet they somehow find it difficult to manage kids and work -- something literally every mother on the planet somehow managed before them. I know having kids can be hard and expensive, but those are all decisions we've made for ourselves. I think what does this really boils down to is upper middle class obsessions about money, status, and delaying adulthood for as long as possible.