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[quote=Anonymous]"Also, remember, if you were born in the 1960's it was before Roe v. Wade so a lot of people probably ended up with kids and husbands, unlike our generatin where at least we're allowed to choose. I would imagine have a wanted marriage and wanted children probably makes a lot of things better."

This is a good point, as is the one another PP mentioned about being born in the 30s, and something I've assumed is one reason behind some stark family differences between my husband and his HS friend cohort (born 1970), and mine (1977). Both cohorts were raised mostly professional class in MoCo and share at least many demographic similarities.

But the parents of his cohort were almost all Silent Generation, and more than half had 3-4+ kids, I assume in part because they had almost all started their families pre-Roe/pre-Pill, etc. (No more of them than mine were Catholic/etc., either.)

Really a contrast between those family dynamics and those of my cohort, where parents were Boomers, more than 2 kids was uncommon, there was a decent chunk of only children, and having more than 3 kids was pretty darned rare. Different values to some extent, different opportunities, different experiences of war and history and politics, different career trajectories for women (on average), etc.   [/quote]

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