The most important decision a woman will ever make is

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Who the father of her children will be.

I'd love to think it isn't true, but it is. Who the mother of a man's children is important, but it doesn't impact every aspect of their life, career, health, financial situation in the same way.

If it's BP, there's alternatives.

Hard to see how you got from decisions women make (themselves, in an empowered way), to 'breeding heifers '!?

Seems as if you'd be able to find offence in just about anything 😁

More importantly to choose milk, dark or white chocolate .

And still or sparkling?

This. A woman is far more than her reproductive choices.

I think the most important decision I had to make was whether to stay alive for a bit longer or not.

Im glad ( for now) I (literally) chose life.

For both genders, who you marry. You will spend your life with them hopefully.

I don't agree with the original post. And setting aside the fact that the poster did not say that it's the only important decision that you'll ever make but rather the most important, when somebody posts something is it really necessary for them to post every single eventuality and caveat or can people just read it and assume that it doesn't apply to them and scroll past?

Ah feck.
Now you tell me.
There I was dithering whether to go Jam berliner or sticky cinnamon bun at lidl earlier.
And I thought that was tricky ...

What kind of psychopath chooses between the two? Both is the correct answer!

On a serious note, I do agree actually OP!

Idiotic thread

Is to decide to start telling everyone to fuck off and do it themselves if they want it done.

Hard disagree, many women choose not to have children at all.

pregnancy is not always a choice

Many years ago Julie Birchall wrote words to the effect that working class girls have only to make one bad decision to fuck up their lives.

I agree.

I’d agree. Marrying the wolf in sheep’s clothing certainly fucked up the rest of my life. He lives in luxury, I’m left scrabbling around trying to survive with a disabled now adult child

One I struggle with!

Surely before that it's whether she actually wants to procreate?

I think the point of this isn’t the ‘having children bit’ it’s the ‘choosing a partner to be tied to’ but that’s important. This could be through children, lack of independence, mixed friends and family or finances. Unfortunately having children can often mean you are bonded in some way for life. There’s so much derailing going on here at the moment.

And yes I agree, I think parents should be teaching their children about ‘red flags’ in a relationship and discussing what a healthy relationship looks like with the same focus if not more than picking a university. We discuss it often in our home

I totally disagree with this. I was raised to believe exactly what you have said, I had an excellent career, educated to masters level plus further qualifications, i really wish it had been drilled into me how important having children with the right person is, as much as I had it drilled into me to study and work hard to get a good career so I can be secure and independent. Having children with the person that I did has led to me losing my career and every aspect of myself.

Considering how many of us struggle with infertility how can it even be considered a choice. I chose to have kids but I don't have them yet, although I am trying every avenue.

Yes, it strikes me as the answer that people want to have - one that would chime with a world that was fair and rewarded effort - rather than a clear eyed view of the napalm effect of having a child with a toxic man and then spending the rest of your life playing a human shield between them and your child.

I think its whether you want to be a mother, then who you want the other parent or to do it alone?

Absolutely. Here's the well-known Gloria Steinem quote on a badge that I would have worn if I'd have needed to get one, back in the day. I'm childfree.