Fertility Classes in School?

The Guardian recently published an article addressing issues of fertility in our modern society.

With couples delaying having children longer and longer, some until their mid-late 30s or early 40s, there are quite a few that come to realise they will not be able to reproduce naturally, if at all. Some critics have argued that we need fertility classes alongside sex education classes in school to prepare people so they can make their life choices around their biological clocks rather than relying on (an imperfect) science to keep them fertile until they are old.

This is a complicated issue, because, as I have observed through my own life, it is the Western cultural system that often forces women to delay childbearing. Many of my friends (myself included) have been in university close to 10 years. We want to graduate university, establish some kind of career so that we may have something to go back to after time off for kids, and have time to meet, marry, and mate, but the way our system is set up it is difficult to achieve this until at least the late 20s or early 30s.

I hope the governments look into this and that maternal and paternal benefits become the norm. On the other hand, the world is over populated and there are many issues that are helped by delaying childbearing, but our society needs to find a way to reconcile these issues so that people are not left grieving for the children they are unable to bear. Can the government benefits help us find this middle ground?