Our society was so hyper focused on preventing teen pregnancy that my mother put me on birth control even though I wasn’t sexually active and it caused major issues with my endocrine system. I have developed polycystic ovary syndrome. I don’t know if that’s related but likely. I have had one pregnancy when I was in my 20s and I lost it after a couple of months. The trauma of losing that child, along with the emptiness of never having another pregnancy has stuck with me.. family planning doesn’t always happen. For traditional marriage, there are many men who would rather be perpetually non-monogamous, or a vasectomied and have a phobia of marriage. Looking back on my life at age 40 I would have preferred a young pregnancy to never having a child at all. My life is empty., and being alone, I’ve had to work twice as hard to support myself. I’ve never found a man who was serious about building a family. I have a few years left I’m sure but no one who fits the requirement of “ free to marry”.