We found little variation across countries in terms of mean upper age limits, but considerable heterogeneity in both the percentage of people who perceive a deadline and in the percentage of people who feel that women should not have children after age 40 and men after age 45.
With the single exception of Bulgaria, in all countries, maternal age deadlines are perceived by >90% of the respondents.
The vast majority (96.4%) of the respondents readily cited a maternal age deadline, with a mean of 41.7 years (SD = 5.2), and 57.2% of respondents perceived a maternal age deadline of 40 or earlier.
One key finding is that the large majority of Europeans perceive social age deadlines for childbearing, for both women and men.
This is suggested in our country-level correlational analyses that show a negative relationship between accessibility to ART and whether deadlines for childbearing are perceived, and a positive relationship between accessibility to ART and later childbearing deadlines.
These deadlines are often lower than actual biological limits, and for women and men alike: 57.2% of respondents perceived a maternal social age deadline ≤40 years of age; 46.2% of the respondents perceived a paternal social age deadline ≤45 years of age.
Social age deadlines for childbearing were perceived more frequently for women than men.
Because the proportions who perceive an age deadline for women are higher than for men in almost all countries (with the exception of France), and because the SDs are uniformly larger for men than for women, the evidence for normative consensus around childbearing deadlines is stronger for women than it is for men.
Having a deadline for successful negotiations will undercut the perceived credibility of American diplomacy in Tehran and serve only to prepare the way for more coercive measures.
Many "below the line" crew members, who include technical and craft workers, have long complained about a perceived cavalier attitude toward set safety by directors focused on costs and deadlines.
We also perceived the need to maintain interest in the project and therefore set relatively short deadlines for completion of the second part of the audit cycle.
