"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
The Grass is Always Greener: There's been a slew of reports lately about the the dangers of putting off motherhood. The latest is from a group of fertility nurses in England . The nurses seem to be jumping on the media bandwagon that was set in motion by a recent book that purports to document the unhappiness of successful career women who have delayed motherhood or forsaken it altogether. I don’t dispute the notion that conception and pregnancy are more difficult in older women, but I do dispute the notion that women must have children to be happy. It’s a myth that needs to be exploded.
No doubt if you had polled women fifty years ago when they saw themselves as having no other options but marriage and motherhood, they would have placed less value on having children than on having a life to call their own. Now, women have that life, but wish they could live the domestic bliss fantasy. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. posted by Sydney on
4/23/2002 08:08:00 AM
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