? If they make a mistake, let it be. People learn from mistakes.
Unfortunately some mistakes leave women childless, barren, and alone just when they want children though. While making choices, young women should be given some very basic truths and the biggest of which being when thier fertility is at its peak, when it will likely be gone, and the dwindling supply of mates as one waits to marry. They need to understand that they can have a career well into thier 70's with good health, but they can not have babies well into thier 70's. Once they have some of those basic biological truths, then, and only then, can they be free to make informed decisions about the rest of thier lives, and yes, to make mistakes too.
True enough. We need to give young people information. Fine. But how many young people heed all or even most of the warnings adults give? After age 18 you're pretty much on your own. If you make mistakes (and who doesn't) that's fine. We don't need to coddle women in this regard is all I'm saying. If you wake up at 40 and forgot to have kids, why do we need to listen to whining about it?
The author seemed to be gloating about women in a paternal "I told you so" sort of way. Give me a break. Females over 18 are adults and fully capable of running their own lives, mistakes, regrets and all, just like grown men.
His tone really bugged me. It sounded like he was saying adult women aren't qualified to run their own lives using the emotionally incompetent (and fictional) "Bridget Jones" as his basis for that assertion. This would be like me making sweeping generalizations about men after watching a Pauly Shore movie.