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This is just not true. If you look at immigrant software engineers, they are usually married by 30 and then start having kids.

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I'd like to see your data. Silicon Valley aside, the trend for women with college degrees has been to postpone childbirth until around age 35. This isn't exactly news.

The average age of college educated women at first birth is 30: http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/getting-mar...

If Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia are included in those statistics, the age is closer to 35.

I don't have data for Silicon Valley, only anecdotal evidence. If you look at Indians and Russians around 30, they are mostly married and having/preparing to have kids. It is a well-known fact that immigrant fertility is higher in US than native fertility.

I don't know where 35 years at first child came from. This is way too high for an average, even among well-educated. There might be a trend but at that age you will have all kinds of problems even with modern advances in IVF.

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