Study: Men of All Ages Want Women in Their Mid-20s

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489. A 20-year old woman is not necessarily better able to bear children than a 13-year-old.

Not all women will get taller and have hips that widen. That's a genetic thing. If your mom had narrow hips, you probably will too.
This is why C-sections are still necessary to prevent death in many women who are sexually mature, because they can't deliver vaginally. My mom had somewhat narrow hips but she was quite a bit taller than I am and had a bigger frame, so she was able to deliver vaginally but it was difficult with forceps. I have no deformity to my bones, I am just a petite person.

When I was young and started developing a woman's figure, my ribcage got big, my shoulders got big, and I ripped out my underarm seams in my dresses from stress. My hips never got any wider than they were when I was 14. I had a skirt my mother made for me in junior high in 7th grade. I was twelve years old. I could still wear the same skirt in college when I was 19. So I had to have my child by C-section.

The reasons one third of women used to die in childbirth was narrow hips and dysfunctional labor and also puerperal fever, which was a massive infection caused by male doctors with dirty hands examining women's vaginas when they were in labor. Ignaz Semmelweis washed his hands and spent many years trying to convince his fellow doctors to wash their hands before examining women.

There is a conflict between the size of the child's head, the size of the pelvic opening, and the fact that humans walk on two legs. When the woman's pelvis is not big enough, she will die because the baby's head is too big, unless she has a C-section which is a major abdominal surgery which will save her life. This is called in biology the "obstetric dilemma". Also the child's head must be small for many years and the child is dependent on the parents for many years.