Making decisions

I correspond with a young woman in her twenties. She is well educated and her emails are testament to the fact that she is intelligent, well read and considered. I like the fact that she is very open minded. She believes that women can do whatever they choose - that a woman should feel free to make her own choices: to marry or not to marry, to have a child or never have a child; to make a career her life or to enter a power exchange where she gives up some (or all) her choices to a man. Whatever makes her happy, she says.

The young woman notes that her friends are similar to her - all well educated and all engaged in careers and/or post graduate degrees. They haven't thought about marrying, she tells me. She adds that she and her friends don't even consider it a possibility. I wonder why.

Unfortunately, life is not finite. Our bodies don't wait for us. Either we decide to have a child by a certain age or we elect by default quite often, not to have a child.

Are these young women making educated decisions about what is right for them, not just now but for their future? Or, are they putting off the decision until it is made for them?

I wonder exactly what is going on here.