Where have all the young men gone?

marite
Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:40:42 +0000

My daughter somehow assumes the money will be “there” - it’s not her job to provide for a family (even though half of all families end in divorce.)



I have seen so many women who went to college to get an Mrs. as they used to say (my roommate was frank about this) and who got divorced in middle age and whose income dropped precipitously; it’s a wonder that there still are young women who think they will be taken care of financially by their husbands. The big scandal when I was in grad school involved men whose wives put them through med school or law school and then divorced the wives as soon as they were able to put up a shingle.

Different schools seem to have diffrent climates. Altthough my S’s school is very progressive, boys are in the majority in math and science APs (except for biology, I think). There was so much alarm, in fact, that a Science Club for Girls was started first in S’s k-8 school, then in other schools. It now has spread to some other districts.