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A lot of it has to do with career. They make it pretty difficult to have a family and work. I think we would have more woman getting married if they had a more family friendly work situation. Nope as a conservative, I would not want them giving more freebies to woman, but this is one of the reasons why woman are not getting married and having children. For example, if you are a teacher and you and your husband decide to have a baby and take a year or two off, good luck getting another teaching job. It is way to risky to take any time off from work for taking care of a baby. Obviously I am talking more about having families then strictly getting married because many single woman seem to have babies, but most of those are in the either very poor or very rich.

I'm a bit old school: women don't belong in MOST work situations, where the "breadwinner" earns the income, and the woman is the PRIME guidance for the children, as Nature intended. Modern-day, women have been FORCED to work because the TAX BURDEN is so great that a single income becomes VERY hard to sustain a reasonable standard of living.

Couple this with the encouragement of women to be "independent", thinking somehow this will make them "whole", is a fallacy and solely intended to destroy a nuclear family, as evindenced by the new term "single mother", where we used to use terms such as "divorcee, slut, tramp, easy-lay, etc."

I think we would have more woman getting married if they had a more family friendly work situation.”

Don’t necessarily agree. Women of my generation worked full-time and often in supervisory or management positions, kept the house, did the laundry and ironing, cooked breakfast and dinner, packed lunches, made a lot of clothes for everyone, had babies and were good mothers. Of course we had our babies when we were young, had more energy and were more flexible and less demanding, unlike women today.

We had unpaid maternity leave when the boss decided it was time and returned six weeks after the baby was born.

Not sure exactly what it means by women having it all. I don’t think I missed out on anything in my career, with my spouse or with my children. I can guarantee you I never sat around in the evening reading, watching TV or having a leisurely glass of wine. But by having children when you’re in your early or mid 20’s, you have a whole lot of life left after they are grown and gone.