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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unpopular opinion:
anti brunch granny is not completely wrong. 
Just sayin’[/quote]

Well maybe men should grow up and make us want to get married and start popping out babies before we turn 30?[/quote]

I didn’t say it was fair.
But she’s not wrong about biology.
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So does that mean that Brunch Granny is PRO brunch for those of us in our 50s past child bearing years? [/quote]

Do whatever you want after menopause. But being a layabout day drunk on weekends while you're still a gorgeous 20-something is a fool's errand.[/quote]

Are those my only options? a) layabout day drunk or b) move back to my hometown so I can marry directly after college so my parents can be young grandparents? It's so hard to decide. [/quote]

I think the argument was originally in reference to not being able to afford child care. If you moved away from all of your family support system (ex. free childcare) and you're still too broke 5 and 10 years after college to afford kids and childcare, maybe it's time to admit you were bamboozled.[/quote]

Why are you presuming that everyone's family is ready to do free child care for you? If you're in your 20s when you have kids, and your parents were also in their 20s when they had kids, that means they're in their 40s now - do you think most 40-somethings are in a position to retire so they can give free babysitting to their grandkids?

You live in a bizarre fantasy world, and frankly one that sounds a lot less fun than SATC ever was.[/quote]

+1. When I was in my 20s, my parents were in the prime of their careers. My highly educated and high achieving mother was not about to quit her well paying job and all the perks that came with it to go babysit. And once my parents did retire, you know what they did? Travelled internationally with a similarly aged group of retired friends. Who exactly was going to be watching the kids while they traveled through Asia for 3 weeks? Should I have expected them to put their plans aside so I could have a free sitter, after they worked hard all their lives?

We hired a wonderful nanny and they got to go enjoy retirement. They babysit on the weekends when they feel like it. [/quote]

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