[Draco]

Report from the dating front: Don't date a lady lawyer or law student. The one I just dated took a cell phone call from her study group in the middle of a lunch date. She is "very busy" -- and so that was our last date. Too much self-absorbtion to ever be "Mom material."

[twigs]

You're smart. I raised my daughter as a single parent until she was 12 and therefore had to put her in child-care (which I absolutely hated to do). I always raced home ASAP to pick her up and turned down a lot of evening engagements I should have gone to as as PR person for my company. In two different centers, the children in at the crack of dawn and the last out were the children of two parents who were both lawyers. Made me sad--and ill.

[bourbon]

Hey, man, I go to school with 'that girl' and about 150 other girls just like her. A sizable majority of the female law/med. students I know have fallen prey to the illusion that they can "have it all." The process of unlearning this foolishness and internalizing the hard truth is going to be extremely painful for these ladies and whomever they choose to date/marry.