Y'know, the world would be a better place if only there were more people
When was the last time you panicked and it turned out great? You hear, "I panicked and shot him, but that flash of metal I saw was just an Eskimo Pie." You never hear, "I panicked and earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Now I teach at Wellesley and summer in Nice."
I bring this up because I've read about a panic — spreading like a cold through a classroom — among young, professional women over whether they've waited too long to have children.
[...] People with kids have overwhelming cultural support for their lifestyle in our family-mad society. You will hear people stupidly tell a childless woman, "You should have kids," but you will never find them asking a mother of three, "Was that last one necessary?"
I find the article's attribution of the panic to Sylvia Ann Hewlett's Creating a Life odd, though, given that despite the advance publicity almost any author would kill for, it's not selling.
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