Timkins I was not "attacking" you mate. I think you know my posts by now!

Sorry to others who thought I was doing so.

See my other posts re other articles and my absolute support for men!! I am proud to be female. I am sick and tired ot radical leftist (and mostly) uneducated feminists.

I did not have the privilege of having children - but I did have the privilege of having loving parents - and indeed loving grandparents.

Women who moan and bemoan struggling with work (seems first), children and play, and who spend their lives "verbally bashing" men make me sick.

A thought-provoking article>

I also agree with the comments about broken families. It is not just aging parents but also the terrible fallout marriage breakup has on grandparents but also aunts, uncles, cousins and other members of the extended society we call "family".

As families polarise after a separation in an effort to weather the pain and societal difficulties, the children lose an intangible part of the rich web of relationships, skills, value systems, ideas and generational perceptions. I think this diversity confers a real survival advantage as one member eg dad cannot teach you everything. I learned practical skills from uncles, language and history from my father, how to make a vegetable garden from my grandfather, how to countersink a screw and skin a kangaroo from a cousin, how to knit and make scones from my mother and about knots and lighting fires from my Scout Master.

Modern children live increasingly in a contracted social world
where the computer has replaced these people and for children in "broken homes", they lose not only a parent but also one whole side of the rich pie of life. The other members lose out in turn.

So it is not really only aging parenthood which is the problem as we are all surviving longer and healthier but this other malaise combined with smaller and smaller families of overindulged children by neurotic parents with designer labelled clothes and who have spent most of their adult life as "Duel-Income-No-Kids" drinking skinny-cino's and spending all Saturday morning in coffee shops.