Females are at their most fertile at 16 years old.
not exactly. it's more complex than that.
girls these days usually have their menarche (first period) at age 12.5 as the average age in america. in the first year after menarche, 80% of a girl's cycles are anovulatory (meaning it doesn't ovulate or something), 50% of cycles are anovulatory in the third year and only 10% of cycles are anovulatory in the sixth year.
first year: 12.5-13.5
2nd year: 13.5-14.5
3rd year: 14.5-15.5
4th year: 15.5-16.5
5th year: 16.5-17.5
6th year: 17.5-18.5
so their fertility starts off really low after their first period. and skyrockets throughout their teenage years, and fertility becomes sort of high in their mid-teens and very high in their late teens, but women's fertility reaches its peak at ages 20-24 actually.
a lot of bluepilled cucks will say that pregnant teens have pregnancy complications a lot because they're physically immature and their pelvis isn't developed. this is actually an exaggeration. first of all, the pelvis is 100% developed once you get to age 25-30, but it's developed enough for giving birth once you get to your late teens. second of all, experts on teen pregnancy don't really agree if it's biological immaturity that causes complications or socioeconomic factors like lack of access to prenatal care and smoking while pregnant (many pregnant teens smoke and lack prenatal care, increasing the risk of complications). also, pregnancy complications aren't as prevalent among pregnant teens as feminists say. although they are more likely to have pregnancy complications, a majority of them don't have pregnancy complications. some research shows biological immaturity causes pregnancy complications but some says biological immaturity is
not a factor and that it's socioeconomic factors like smoking and lack of prenatal care, one study i found shows that pregnant teens are still more likely to have pregnancy complications even when controlling for socioeconomic factors but with prenatal care, good nutrition and avoiding smoking, the odds of complications are reduced, but nonetheless, studies show that most pregnant teens don't have complications, and studies show that if they have good access to prenatal care, and have good nutrition and avoid smoking while pregnant, they have a great chance of giving birth to a healthy baby. and also, complications are more common among younger teens (13-14 year olds) than older teens (15-19 year olds). Black women in america have more pregnancy complications but it's because of lack of prenatal care,
not race. In the Middle Ages, pregnancy was dangerous and 1 in 3 women died from it, and many women wrote their wills instantly when they discovered they're pregnant, because we didn't have good doctors and prenatal care back then and we only got pregnancy advice from other women, who weren't even experts on pregnancy.
also, pregnant teens are the least likely age group to require c-sections actually. and c-sections, while they're safe nowadays, didn't even invented until like what? 500 BC or something? and they didn't become safe until a couple centuries ago or something, so throughout most of history c-sections were dangerous and it's dangerous and even deadly for pregnant women who require c-sections to
not get a c-section older mothers are the ones who get c-sections more.
also, while women at their fertility peak at age 20-24, they're at their reproductive value peak at about 14 years old. Reproductive value means how many years they have left of being able to produce children. The younger, the higher the reproductive value. The compromise between fertility peak (age 20-24) and reproductive value peak (age 14/15) would be late teens. Foids reach sexual maturity and reproductive maturity when they get to their older teen years (15-19).