Saturday, March 06, 2010

When Should You Become A Mom?


Annette Larkin, now 46, waited until she was 38 to have her daughter, Bella. The time to focus on her career was the best gift she could have given herself and her child, she says. Larkin spent her 20s and early 30s building her career and making connections in Washington, D.C.--a city, she says, where your reputation is worth more than your resume.

She achieved big successes working as a Capitol Hill staffer and as a field operative on both Clinton-Gore election campaigns. Later, when she felt ready to have a child, Larkin was satisfied with her career accomplishments, and she felt secure in the resources she'd built up by working into her 30s.

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