[summer]

FYI.

[Windsong]

Hmmm...I once heard a physiologist say that sex and death are related more than they ever suspected. Is the reverse true? So someone who is immortal cannot reproduce? Now I know where the Highlander writers got their ideas from :P

On a more serious note, I wonder if biological immortality is forever unreachable...

[wingnuts'nbolts]

This is a good post. In the 50's and 60's marriage was expected. A girl went to college mainly to find a husband who was upwardly mobile. As the 70's and the hippie movement grew along with radical feminism women who wanted to marry and be housewives were denegrated. So they busied themselves with showing the male population that women were just like men...not!

They gained financial success, led fast lives, climbed the corporate ladder, but nature will out. Men seemed to still want a woman to have his children, take care of them and love him exclusively. Not a bad concept. Been around for awhile.

Now these 40ish women are financially set, but it is a bit hollow. They can probabaly still marry and be happy enough but the child rearing days are over.

As women became more selfish in what they wanted from life the thought of giving oneself to children and husband before self was terrifying. But it is nature's call and really the way it was intended to be. The pendulum will swing back and the white middle and upper class will again start to have children. We inately need to leave something here. We need to make our mark on the world, have great, great, great grandchildren.

The team work involved in making and careing for a family has nothing to do with college degrees. Women with active curious minds become educated by reading and being socially active. Women want strong husbands and husbands want strong family oriented women.

The 70's, 80's and 90's divorce rate scared off a lot of marriagable women and men. Abortion made no committment sex OK. Birth control gave women the freedom that heretofore men had had exclusively.

Sadly for the 40 something single woman who is now wanting a husband and family it is too late to join the 20 someting young families. Let's hope society and women learn for the past 3 or 4 decades.