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I'm 37, childless but I've been speaking to a companion for a long while now. We've already spent quality time (no sex yet) and are thinking of settling down soon. I always thought getting pregnant by a boyfriend that later on cheats or never commits is worse. If I can have kids in the right manner so beat it. I'm unwilling to bring an innocent child misery.

In the end, out of the two less favorable positions for a woman would my position (older and childless) be better than be younger and already with 2-3 kids of different men?

My friend can't ever forgive her parents ever getting disowned for getting pregnant at 18. She's now 32, in a stable marriage, they both own a business and her two kids are both ages 14 and 9.

Her parents all of the sudden are all remorseful and want her back. However, this was her reply back to them ''My biological parents died long ago. Goodbye''. She then proceeded to blocking them.

She can't ever forgive that they didn't give a rats about her life (her 2nd pregnancy nearly cost her life; it got complicated), health, her first child's birth, her wedding, her b-days, etc. She also suspects they're just contacting her only after finding out she's having a good life and wouldn't be reaching out if she was poor and struggling? Her then boyfriend (now husband) took full responsibility and she received support from his parents. They were like a real parents to her. She also imagines that even if she forgives them and were to have them back in her life, she would never forget what they're capable of and that their love was never unconditional, that they would leave her during bad times again.

Would you forgive and give a 2nd chance if you got disowned or not? Personally, I agree with my friend. I would never be able to forgive that.

Obviously both genders have their own different challenges. What might be an advantage to one gender isn't to the other. But honestly what do you it's worse?

- A man (ages 25+) never getting a girlfriend and remains dateless; a virgin. Maybe he might have wanted a family but he's not having any luck at all. Yet, he won't pay for sex.

- A woman that can't get a keeper on time (she had a couple bfs but neither of them ever propose, all of them are just into shacking up, the romance and sex but not commitment) and either her fertile years are drained if she remains childless or she ends up pregnant with a boyfriend and at a higher risk of being a single mother. Then having a child with a man that wouldn't commit reduces her dating pool of suitable keepers even more.