I’ve seen so many younger parents be better parents than a older couple, scary but its true!!!!

BG

Billygean´s last blog post..“For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.” Ursula LeGuin, The Dispossessed.

I am seeing the trend with my friends as well. Most of us are in our mid-to-late twenties, settling down & getting married, and most of us have careers taking off at one rate or another. My fiance and I do want to have a couple kids eventually- as in like 5 years down the road- and we are very aware that this is not at all the norm amongst our friends. Most of our newly-married or soon-to-be-married friends explicitly do not want children, and a couple of them say they know they don’t want kids now and don’t know if they ever will want kids. Most of our friends are very well educated though, and I know there are many documented statistics about how the more education people have, the fewer children they tend to have- that is probably coming into play here.

And I have to say, I completely disagree with the supposed “Bristol Palin effect.” I work with many teen moms as a nurse, and can tell you that most of them have very little knowledge of what is going on in the world around them at all- and I doubt they know who Bristol Palin is, let alone think of her as a role model. Most of these girls literally need reminders to put down their cell phones and pay attention to their babies. I worry about what the future holds for them.

Jenna @ Newlyweds´s last blog post..Meet the Newlyweds John & Sarah