Fewer than half of Spanish women between 30 and 45 want kids
Fewer than half of Spanish women between 30 and 45 want kids
Only 48.5% of Spanish women aged between 30 and 45 want to have children, according to a survey by the Eugin Clinic in Barcelona, which also revealed that women are waiting until after they are 31 to become mothers, in 73% of cases in order to achieve greater economic stability.
According to the survey of 1,200 women and 300 men aged 30 to 45 years, without children or with a maximum of one, not having children constitutes "a significant emotional impact" for 67.5% of Spaniards.
57% of respondents said they would resort to assisted reproductive technologies if necessary, and 18.2% of women would willingly have their own eggs frozen to delay motherhood.
According to Andrés Rebage, the manager of the Eugin Clinic which specialises in assisted reproduction, "the aim of the study was to find out why women are delaying motherhood, to discover the factors that determine the right moment to become a parent, and to evaluate confidence in assisted reproduction techniques, like egg freezing as an alternative to delay motherhood voluntarily".
The survey showed that women in Murcia (70%) and Navarre (56.7%) are the keenest to become mothers. The main reasons given for not having children are economic difficulties (39.7%) and concerns about the future (30.3%).
Factors that influenced a delay in childbearing, included women's desires to achieve greater economic stability (73.7%), to enjoy their social life (34.8%) and to pursue a career (31.5 %).
Regarding the ideal age to have children, more than half of respondents said it is between 30 and 40 years, but two out of three respondents considered it negative to delay childbearing.
According to the medical director of the Clinic Eugin, Vernaeve Valerie, "from the age of 30, a woman's chances of getting pregnant with her own eggs decrease each year. This means that at 30 the odds are 78%, by 35 they are reduced to 57% and from 40 it's hard to get pregnant with her own eggs."
66.9% of respondents said they trusted assisted reproduction techniques, and 49.7% would trust egg freezing as a way of voluntarily delaying motherhood.In fact, 18.2% of women said freezing their eggs was a possibility in the future, but the survey also revealed that 40% of women were not aware of that this possibility was available to them.
