• I don’t want any children in this world we are living in, seeing the pathetic future that the human being is reserving the planet, I don’t see the benefit in continuing to reproduce.
• Whenever you are ready.
• To tell you the truth, for me there will never be a right time to plan a baby. You will say after your studies, after that you will have to find the right partner, a job, the house, marriage and after you must think about progressing in your chosen career, and when you finally think about the baby, you are nearly 35 – 40 years old. So you are never ready. You must plan a baby when you have had a long thought about it, for if a problem occurs like the loss of a job, or the car breaking down, or whatever you might think of… The time is when you and your partner feel ready morally; you must talk to him and not do it alone, that’s the best time to plan a baby.
• There is never a best time. You must do it before it is too late. Of course, you can plan it when you have found your soul mate, financial stability etc… But I still think that there is no ‘better time’ and on the contrary ‘it is never the right time’.
• My answer is: it is never the right time. Because when you finish your studies, you must find a job, when you have a job, you are in fear of losing it.
• The right time is when you are truly ready to take your responsibilities as a mother/father, the long years of studies, the joys, but also the cries and sadness of childhood. The pain of teenage hood, the departure of the young one. It is probably when you are mature, towards your intelligent 40s.
• I am among the people who believe that you do not plan a baby, this is because of my religious beliefs.
• Several factors come into account and they all have the same importance (even though the emotional side wins over the rational one):
o A fulfilled life with a partner
o After having taken advantage of the pleasures of life ‘without children’
o Stable professional life
o Enough maturity to decide to compromise
o Sacrifices and renounce certain activities for the benefit of new centre of interests
o Not to waste too much time, as there is nothing worse than ‘young parents’ of almost 35 years old, making the child King (I know I am hard, but I know loads of them).
• I think the time has come to have a baby when you have lived your life of ‘young couple’ enough, taking advantage of opportunities to go out and travel. Because having a baby means sacrifices towards your time table, and leisure and living to the child rhythm, at least the first year.
• When you are financially capable to commit to the baby’s needs and when you are ready.