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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the hell do you expect?

Wages don't grow.  Housing is completely unaffordable.  Childcare costs are insane.  Healthcare is ludicrous.  Even if you had kids, stupid minivan to haul them around to soccer practice now costs $40k.  And don't even talk about college costs....

You want to die in poverty?  Have a kid.

Younger generations didn't create these problems. They're the ones that have to live with them though. The only solution is to not have kids just so that you can keep your financial head above water.  [/quote]

It's not money, it's decades of Hollywood and feminist propaganda. It's "cool" and "sophisticated" and "worldly" to piss away your prime fertility years living in the big city and traveling and [b]waiting two hours to be seated for a hip brunch[/b] and rising the ladder at your make-work career, so you can piss more money away on shoes, travel, and instagram-worthy furniture. #GirlBoss #LeanIn[/quote]

Oooooo the anti-brunch guy is back!!! I missed you and your rants against women going to brunch!!![/quote]

Is it really a dude? Gross.

I assumed it was a cranky old religious hag. 
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I'm not a "dude" or a "hag". I'm in my mid 40s, married, mother of three, one grandchild, a meaningful career, and all of my children attended top 25 universities. Play coy that being a wine or martini drunk, and wasting weekends away shopping and brunching weren't a "thing" for women over the last two decades. It's basically the premise of SATC. Waste your 20s and 30s and you'll land a Mr Big. Fertility? Don't worry about it! Have hedonistic fun! Millions of women who should have been married and having babies were wasting their lives on nothing. Pointless consumerism, and now, nothing to show for it. No heirs, no legacy, nobody will remember them. Genetic dead ends. Never mind end of life, imagine being stricken with an illness in your 30s 40s 50s and no husband or children to help. Or a husband who is exponentially more likely to leave you because he has no children with you. Never experiencing the joys of grandchildren. It's terribly sad how many women were conned.[/quote]

A [u]grandmother[/u] in your mid-40s? Did you not teach your kids how to use birth control?

Your posts read like you’re really bitter about your life choices. Sorry you were cleaning up puke while I was traveling the world and kicking ass at work. 
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No, I did not put our daughters on the pill. Our oldest married her college boyfriend. He is in medical school, she is a grammar school teacher on maturity leave. I'm not bitter. I feel sorry for young women brainwashed by media propaganda. I work with quite a few terminally single and childless women in their 30s and 40s. It's hardly a rare phenom, it's deeply sad.[/quote]

No it's not. Obviously,  math and statistics are not your strength.  [/quote]

PP was too busy pumping out babies as a teen to take math. Probably didn’t attend college. 
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I have a bachelor's and a master's degree and have enjoyed a 25 year professional career. I married my husband at 22, after dating for over three years in college. I guess we should have waited another 8 to 15 years so he could go screw around with various women and I could go waste years of my life aimlessly hooking up, traveling, shopping, boozing and ordering frittatas. We could circle back in our 30s with various mental illnesses, baggage, 90% of my viable eggs gone, and be old on our wedding day and miss seeing our grandchildren grow up. Because media and new wave feminism brainwashed you, and millions like you, to think that was the ideal. Marrying shortly after college is "white trash". Being a young bride and a beautiful educated young mother is so "gross". Right.[/quote]

Trouble is my sister in law did that. Got married at 19 and had her kids 21, 23 and 26.

But her kids now 31, 33 and 36 only one is married and only one grandkid who lives out of state. She is an empty Nestor since 44 when youngest off to college and never moved back.

Her married one wants no kids. The other two no prospects.

Meanwhile my wife had kids at 36, 38 and 42. Today at 57 we did lunch hung out with two of them. [/quote]

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