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[quote=Anonymous]What I'd like is for family life and careers tied to higher education to be easy to enter and exit and reenter and all that.

I agree with most here that while some people don't find a good relationship until they are mature, some people do. And yes, while I am very tolerant, it seems very clear that there are advantages to family wealth and social capital and child development to a happy two-parent household.

What I think is missing here is the idea that if you want to get married and it's the right choice for you at 22 or 25 or 35 or 45, you can do that and it isn't wrecking your career.

What this guy isn't solving is that any law school is effectively going to be dismissive of your application because between 22 and 27 you had three kids instead of a Peace Corps or McKinsey job. Or that success in a PhD to academic pipeline or full-scope medical program barely comes before the end of normal female fertility. If you're lucky.

Men can avoid this and partner with someone younger, and academia and the job market tacitly reward this.

I know I'm saying feminist stuff that was well-known even before feminism was a thing, but Mr. Get Married needs to have an answer that supports family life and education and career, or he can just time travel back to 1946 and have fun.

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