[Master Of Stuff_NA]

Here is a followup response to the NPR website from before:

http://pajamasmedia...._dr_helen_8.php

An Excerpt:

Dr. Helen: Kay Hymowitz obviously spent a lot of time researching this piece on why young men delay marriage. To be honest, some of its themes struck home with me, but there’s one obvious deficiency here that invalidates the entire article. Care to guess what it is? For all her work, Ms. Hymowitz never talked to an actual man. Sure, she watched the Man Show, read a couple issues of Maxim, read a couple of humor Web sites and quoted plenty of studies on the market potential of video games. And yes, by looking at all of those, I’m sure she could glean some truth about the young American male. Then again, if I spent a couple of months reading Cosmopolitan and Redbook, catching up on Grey’s Anatomy via the DVD box set, watched the Lifetime Movie Network and re-runs of the Bachelor, I could probably come to some interesting conclusions about American women and write an article about it in a serious tome like City Journal. Unfortunately, I’m guessing nobody would take me seriously unless I actually chose to speak to some real live actual women before coming to any conclusions. Why does this sort of tripe get taken seriously?

[Aaron]

She must be afraid of us.

[Jake]

I still want this answered. Why should I have kids early on? Why not wait until later?

And why the hell should we all follow some 1950's family stereotype anyways?

[Zziggywolf5]

I still want this answered. Why should I have kids early on? Why not wait until later?

And why the hell should we all follow some 1950's family stereotype anyways?

Because society wants you to, Jake.

[Master Of Stuff_NA]

you don't want 2 and a half children?

*still wonders about the half*

[Zoo]

I still want this answered. Why should I have kids early on? Why not wait until later?

And why the hell should we all follow some 1950's family stereotype anyways?

Because it's been drilled into our heads since we were born that that's how life is, and oh it's so wonderful and don't you want your life to be like that?

People who think differently are wierd, or something's wrong with them, or (etc.).

In other words, there's no good reason for every person to be married and pregnant by 19. [Or more fun words , {expletive ninja'd by Cspace} social expectations, because they're not universally applicable.]

My only issue with having kids later in life is having them so late (i.e. around 60; yeah there's not many cases, but the way things are going I expect it to become more commonplace) that your life expectancy doesn't even see them through to adulthood. That is completely unfair to them, in my opinion. (And that's ignoring all the complications a pregnancy at that age comes with [obviously not an issue if the woman involved is young enough not to have to worry about these]).

[Jake]

I don't think having kids at 60 is really fair, but I was talking about having them in your late 20's to mid 30's.

And society can go to hell .

[Zoo]

I don't think having kids at 60 is really fair, but I was talking about having them in your late 20's to mid 30's.

Aye, I figured that was what you meant , there's just a lot of definitions for later in life >_<. Yeah, by then a person should have established themselves pretty well.