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I believe that late marriage is responsible for many ills. People like sex, and want lots of it. That is a gift from God and should not be thought of as evil or immoral per se.

But when society encourages people to put off marriage and childbearing until their 30's or 40's, that powerful natural drive to reproduce becomes a monkey on our backs, leading to all kinds of unhealthy and perverted behavior.

I think that most people should get married in their late teens or early twenties, get the child bearing out of the way, and only then worry about long-term career goals. If you have a kid at 20, he is away at school all day when you are 25, mostly able to look after himself by your early 30's, and completely independent before you are 40.

Vigorous, varied and frequent sex is the natural condition and right of mankind. God's law commands us to confine it to marriage. Therefore, depriving ourselves of the benefits of marriage for long periods of our adult life is contrary to God's intentions for us.

(There is a corollary to this, ladies, and it has to do with week-long headaches and periods that suppposedly last three and a half weeks per month. See a doctor if necessary, but depriving your husband leads to misery for both of you.)

-ccm

Therefore, depriving ourselves of the benefits of marriage for long periods of our adult life is contrary to God's intentions for us.

How does that apply to nuns and priests?

There is a corollary to this, ladies, and it has to do with week-long headaches and periods that suppposedly last three and a half weeks per month.

Have you ever been married?

I think that most people should get married in their late teens or early twenties, get the child bearing out of the way, and only then worry about long-term career goals.

How outrageously irresponsible. (Or do you want the taxpayers to pay the bills when the idiots who failed to make proper plans find themselves unable to do so?)