Posted on 11/26/2006 5:02:22 AM PST by shrinkermd
....More American women than ever are putting motherhood before matrimony. New data released by the Centers for Disease Control show that nearly four in 10 U.S. babies were born outside of marriage in 2005a new high. These unwed moms aren't all teenslast year teen pregnancies fell to their lowest levels in 65 years. Somelike 44-year-old Mary Lee MacKichan, who used a gay friend as a sperm donorare professional, older women who want to have babies before their biological clocks run out, but most are low-income twentysomethings. (Unwed births among 30- to 44-year-olds are up 17 percent since 1991; among those 25 to 29, they're up 30 percent.) And some 40 percent of those moms aren't going it alonethey're cohabiting, at least for a while. That's creating a major shift in what a generation of children are coming to call a family. "Marriage is still alive and well, but it has a lot of competition," says Wellesley College sociologist Rosanna Hertz, author of "Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice."
Ironically, sociologists say, marriage may be on the decline precisely because it has become so idealized. People expect more from marriage than they did a century ago, when it was mainly a practical arrangement to provide financial stability for women and a place to raise children. "Now it's not only love and romance but also self-fulfillment and personal growth," says Pamela Smock, professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. Since there's no longer much of a stigma attached to getting pregnant outside of marriage, many couples have replaced "shotgun weddings" with "shotgun cohabitations
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SHES GOONA BLOW WHEN SHE SEES THIS ONE !!!!
Dear Accy:
Dr Paul Irwing is a senior lecturer in organisational psychology at Manchester University. He claims that men are more intelligent than women.
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"All the research I've done points to a gender difference in general cognitive ability. There is a mean difference of about five IQ points. The further you go up the distribution the more and more skewed it becomes. There are twice as many men with an IQ of 120-plus as there are women, there are 30 times the number of men with an IQ of 170-plus as there are women"
Well, gee considering your post above, you seem to be a woman basher.
From an intellectual and motivation standpoint, you are.
This girl(accy) reminds me of the femenists rush always likes to talk about. How they focus entirely on their career when there younger, and as they get older and the biological clock starts ticking they will probably regret their decision.
Also, i think someone else put it best, 22-23 year old girls think they know everything.
This thread has been amusing, but for the record, nobody flips burgers at a McDonald's, they steam them.
Posted by Accygirl to LC HOGHEAD
On News/Activism 12/02/2006 12:59:17 PM EST · 443 of 446
I guess if 1950s pseudoscience is your cup
sorry accy..that study is circa 2006
This thread has been amusing, but for the record, nobody flips burgers at a McDonald's, they steam them
WRONGO...MICKEY DS USES A TWO SIDED GRILL NOT A STEAMER
My cousin worked there, he said they used to steam their meat.
Nah, I actually gave up my career and devoted 13 1/2 years to full time parenting. I'm a loser as you account for worth. Luckily, the important people in my life add the columns differently.
I'm almost twenty-five, so I've been in the "real world" for a few years now... (eyes roll).
It's a figure of speech.
You sound like every other girl i know who just graduated college. Completely messed up and thinking you know everything.
Yeah, that's what higher learning does to us weak-minded females.
How exactly am I messed up? And I graduated college two-and-a half years ago which means I have some real world context to back up my opinions?
“Smock found that young couples wanted to wait until they could afford a “real wedding” instead of going “downtown” to the justice of the peace. (Many women even refer to their live-in partner as “fiancé” when a wedding date is nowhere in sight.)”
Quite true. My step brother’s fiance has moved in with us and they are going to live with my parents while saving up for a big wedding. They plan on living with them afterwards and earning their keep by doing chores.
“”Marriage used to be the first step into adulthood,” says Johns Hopkins sociologist Andrew Cherlin. “Now it’s the last.””
It’s sad, but true.
Amen to that! It is disgusting how so many idiots get so much while the hard working and diciplined have to pay for it.
“My husband’s an engineer, he’s brilliant, and we’ll be able to afford me raising the kids without many sacrifices.”
Congratulations. I have a boyfriend who is an engineer. He was apprenticed and is now a full time engineer. As for being a programmer, I see we have that in common because I’m running my own online business and it is mainly programming because it is a website, called “Business Links”.
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