Women's liberation, in many ways, has been a cruel joke for the women.
That statement is scary within itself. Be afraid, very afraid.
Sure, let's short-change the kids by giving them the immature mom who'd rather be elsewhere than sitting home with babies, whose judgment leaves something to be desired. And what makes you think that she'll be free to pursue a career at 35 or 40? Her teenagers won't miss her? Better take this plan back to the drawing board!
How very cannibalistic. Let's make more babies to support our elderly. Why settle for embryo stem cells when we can make whole slaves?
If you want marriage and children, this is a modern necessity.
BTTT
By the time they figure it out - oops - too late.
Then, as holidays come around and "families" are busy celebrating together, the childless home echoes loudly, and forever empty. Then they get an inkling that life is about family - family is forever...family is a the most important, hardest and most rewarding career. Jobs and outside careers evaporate, associates drift off - and they are left with the choices they made.
I'm the mother of 5 and have 15 grandkids. What a glorious 2 weeks I had for Christmas and New Years. That was the career I chose first - and it's been a resounding success...
Sadly, many who are responsible and not desperate to have children at any cost will not have any at all.
Biology follows its own natural course unconcerned with human desires.
If college educated women decide to neglect their child-bearing years and follow men into the workplace then they have no one to blame but themselves for their lack of children.
White collar women, unlike blue collar women, generally (but not always) have the option to take a few years off from work to raise children - some just don't do it.
Biology follows its own natural course unconcerned with human desires.
If college educated women decide to neglect their child-bearing years and follow men into the workplace then they have no one to blame but themselves for their lack of children.
White collar women, unlike blue collar women, generally (but not always) have the option to take a few years off from work to raise children - some just don't do it.
Oh, come on, David. Just say it.
These women have been sold a bill of goods by feminism. I will bet you that most of them know it, too.
It isn't earth-shattering, but the ideas are not bad. To stretch a point, it is as usual today a conservative type who is injecting fresh ideas. Liberal thought is very much constrained by one trillion political-correct rules.
Why bother commenting on anything the NYT ever says? They have forfieted their credibility.
Sadly, these days any 22-year-old girl who graduates from college (a) has a boatload of college-loan debt she has to pay off, and (b) will find that most young men her age react with horror if she says she just wants to stay at home and be a mother. Too many men have been indoctrinated to regard the non-career spouse as a parasite--yes, even those who want children. So a girl today can't do as her great-grandmother did, and sit at home embroidering while waiting for the right young man to pay court to her; she has to get out in the world of work and develop a career. Because, as the article notes, sometimes nobody comes along to marry and support a girl.
How it must suck when the holidays roll around and these brainwashed souls suddenly realize that the most important aspect of their lives was willingly sacrificed on the altar of selfishness, convenience and Leftist ideas of "progress."
Like every Liberal "social experiment," the ideal is trumpeted across the land and the wreckage is only fully recognized when no-one is looking.
Because any guy who has half a brain knows, knows, that if they decide to, or are tricked into swapping genes with one of these money-grubbing harridans, that she will ruin him emotionally, then divorce him, screw around with Paco the Pool Boy, and use the "family" courts to ruin him financially, spiritually, and socially.
Now, faced with such a situation, why would a thinking man with plenty to offer be suckered into a relationship with one of these shark-women?
Other than social desperation or sexual predation, I can't think of any reason whatsoever.
Speaking as a man who has been there, I have NO PITY for those "Sex In The City" harpies.
(Yeah, I got tricked. Thank God the child support will be over once my boy joins the Marine Corps. He's as sick of her as I am)
I expect this to change as older women begin to counsel younger women. I've had some interesting conversations with my sister about her daughther and what educational options she should pursue at the undergraduate level. That's where young women really need guidance, much more so than men at the same age.
What about the other 30%.
Seems like luxury cars, vacation homes and expensive hobbies can make up for not having kids among career DINKS.
What if the family she marries into doesn't want her to have kids?
Unthinkable? Not at all. I don't meet all that many older folks eager to be grandparents. They don't like their own retirements crowded or their attention demanded. They also would like the attn of their grown kids on them instead of being expected to play the loving grandma. My own inlaws hated the whole idea of my having kids, and shunned us out of the family when we did. They have other grown kids who didn't have kids of their own, and that made them a lot happier.
' But, now that my own kids are practically grown, suddenly they're looking at their own mortality and failing health, and are nasty and angry that their grandchildren don't "love" them--there's all kinds of selfishness out there.