More Women in Taiwan Shelving Motherhood for Career
- 11 years ago
More and more young professional women in Taiwan are choosing to have their eggs frozen so that they can have children later in life.
More and more young professional women in Taiwan are choosing to have their eggs frozen so that they can have children later in life.
According to the CIA World Fact Book, Taiwan is tied with Hong Kong for having the third lowest birth rate of any country in the world after Singapore and Macau.
The reason behind this statistic is that many women in Taiwan are getting married later in life at an average age of 30, and are focusing more on their careers rather than having a family of their own in their 20s.
Because of women waiting longer to get married, but still wanting kids, some fertility clinics have seen a rise in requests for donated eggs.
Lai Hsing-hua, the clinic director at e-Stork Reproduction Center in Hsinchu, Taiwan said: “We thought if they had frozen their eggs earlier, maybe they wouldn't need to use donated eggs. That's why we combined in-vitro fertilization with the idea of prevention; prevent them from using others' eggs after their fertility has deteriorated.”
The number of test tubes babies born in Taiwan has reportedly doubled over the past 13 years to reach approximately four thousand in 2010.
More and more young professional women in Taiwan are choosing to have their eggs frozen so that they can have children later in life.
According to the CIA World Fact Book, Taiwan is tied with Hong Kong for having the third lowest birth rate of any country in the world after Singapore and Macau.
The reason behind this statistic is that many women in Taiwan are getting married later in life at an average age of 30, and are focusing more on their careers rather than having a family of their own in their 20s.
Because of women waiting longer to get married, but still wanting kids, some fertility clinics have seen a rise in requests for donated eggs.
Lai Hsing-hua, the clinic director at e-Stork Reproduction Center in Hsinchu, Taiwan said: “We thought if they had frozen their eggs earlier, maybe they wouldn't need to use donated eggs. That's why we combined in-vitro fertilization with the idea of prevention; prevent them from using others' eggs after their fertility has deteriorated.”
The number of test tubes babies born in Taiwan has reportedly doubled over the past 13 years to reach approximately four thousand in 2010.