There are so many lies that women have decided to believe in the name of feminism. Today’s stories focus on two elements of toxic feminism and the women who have awakened and regret their wasted youth.

The first one centers on a young woman in the UK who fully embodied the sexual revolution, shacked up with her boyfriend, and never married him. After 10 years of dating, her 38-year-old boyfriend left her because he didn’t want to change his child-free lifestyle, whereas she is ready to settle down and have children.

She now wants compensation for his “stealing her childbearing years,” enabling her to start IVF and save her eggs for when she finds another man.

Women in their 30s are being jolted by the reality that they are running out of time to get married and start a family. As the aforementioned woman told The Telegraph, “Here I am at 34, eggs twitching, ready for the marriage and parenthood stage of life, but unexpectedly single and emotionally devastated. I am tipping into the furious phase of the grief cycle because I feel as though he owes me big time and I want him to pay.”

This woman made bad choices. She was a willing victim of the bad ideologies of feminism and the sexual revolution. She chose to give her childbearing years to a man who was unwilling to commit to her and who has now left her high and dry, dreams unfulfilled, and having to start completely from scratch. She has no legal claim on him, as they were never married.

Unfortunately, this is a choice that has become so normalized among Millennials that it’s now a significant problem. A problem that God solved for us already. As Not the Bee’s Joel Abbott put it:

There’s a saying: Every few years, “progressives” will rediscover traditional morality and act like they just invented the lightbulb. Having some kind of formal contract that protects two people who wish to procreate? Having some type of agreement, maybe with witnesses, to ensure that a woman is provided for during the vulnerability of pregnancy and birth? Making sure that the man’s sexual access is restricted until after he has signed this contract, and guaranteeing that both partners’ resources will be shared under law?

At the same time, this woman deserves some sympathy. She is just a fish imbibing the cultural water around her, and her boyfriend is a total schmuck who should never have led her on for a decade. Now her biological clock is ticking. She has very limited time to begin having kids, and this panic is pushing her toward the contentious industry of in vitro fertilization. (Sidebar: The number of babies killed during the IVF process annually is now greater than that of aborted babies.)

As if to underscore how this issue affects many women in their 30s, country music star Kelsea Ballerini just released a new single titled “I Sit in Parks.” This poignantly sad song reveals the heart of the singer, who, by the world’s standards, has it all — except all she wants today is to be a wife and a mother.

Here are some of the lyrics:

I sit in parks, it breaks my heart
‘Cause I see just how far I am from the things that I want
Dad brought the picnic, Mom brought the sunscreen
Two kids are laughing and crying on red swings

We look about the same age
But we don’t have the same Saturdays

Did I miss it? By now, is it
A lucid dream? Is it my fault
For chasing things a body clock
Doesn’t wait for?
I did the d**n tour
It’s what I wanted, what I got
I spun around and then I stopped
And wonder if I missed the mark

In the second verse, she talks about the vaping and SSRIs she uses to cope with being so far from where she wants to be.

The accompanying music video ends with Ballerini on a swing and the background of a park, which is just what the studio can facilitate for her. Her final words are, “Tarryn’s due in June, the album’s due in March” — as if to say that the only baby she’ll be looking forward to is her music album, which is so much less satisfying.

Ballerini divorced her husband at age 29, and one of the reasons they separated was because she didn’t think she wanted kids. She is now 32 and realizes that she does want a family, but now she’s back at square one — no husband and no kids. Sadly, Ballerini bought into the feminist girl boss lie.

While the first story’s tragic heroine fell for the unserious boyfriend, making promises he didn’t intend to keep while reaping all the benefits, both tales are a warning for our Gen Z sisters. But trying to tell a woman (or a man) in their 20s hard truths is an exercise in futility. They “know” everything already. There are terrible signs that Gen Z is going down this same tragic path — and in some cases, even more terrible paths (transgenderism, radical socialism, etc.). All one has to do is look at what happened in New York City’s mayoral race. Who voted in Zohran Mamdani? Gen Z and foreign-born New Yorkers.

One of Aesop’s fables, called “The Ants & the Grasshopper,” addresses this conundrum in a nutshell. The ants try to get the grasshopper to stop singing and playing all summer and instead get ready for the winter by storing food. The grasshopper ignores the ants, and when winter comes around, it’s left cold and hungry after the ants warned him of his folly.

A growing number of Millennials want Gen Zers to know that their 20s are the time to find a spouse and start a family. This is when the number of potential spouses is plentiful, and the time for creating a family is better and more fertile. A 20-year-old may think that she doesn’t want kids, but there is something about turning 30 and her biological clock ticking that changes that attitude for many women (including Ballerini).

The moral of this story? Don’t have sex before marriage. Get married young and have kids. A career can wait, but starting a family has an expiration date.