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all those girls that bought into it are still single, lonely, and for the most part poor.

A right good number of Mrs WBill's college friends are in their late 30s / early 40s. Mostly professionals (and scarily, mostly in education) they certainly would consider themselves "Feminists". Far from being poor, they're "single and loving" it, with fantastic trips (NYC, Europe, CA) at the drop of a hat, parties every weekend, and so on.

Looks like a life anyone would want, until you get past the thin veneer. Underneath it is a lonely, single, and desperately unhappy lifestyle. They've tried to replace "husband and kids" - things feminism says that they don't need! - with a party-all-the-time lifestyle, and are failing miserably at it.

Meanwhile, Mrs. WBill (who "settled", per some of her friends) and I are blissfully happy. Sure, we don't jet off to Europe for whatever the latest East End premier is.... but we took the kids to the pumpkin patch this past weekend and had a blast.

I'll take that over "shallow and meaningless", every time. :-) And, I'm glad that my lovely wife has been spending more time with the ladies at our church, than her old college friends. Much better class of people.

...but we took the kids to the pumpkin patch this past weekend and had a blast.

This past Saturday I was sitting on my law mower mowing my lawn. Nice sunny day. Two of my kids were in the backyard throwing a football. Our dog was chasing the errant balls.

It was then that I dropped my head in a silent prayer of thanks to the Almighty for the undeserved blessings he has bestowed on me.

Looks like a life anyone would want, until you get past the thin veneer.

I married in my early 20s and stayed that way for 10 years, which was more than enough. I'm 64 now and quite content and happy with being single all these years. I gave the ex back to his mother--maybe she finally taught him to take a bath daily and wash his hair more than once a week. He did like dirt. Nobody lies to me about money; I've been able to save money and stay out of debt. I don't have to worry about getting some weird STD. I don't have to be embarrassed by the ex's manners.

My only regret is that I ever married. Thin veneer? Try living honestly without being dragged down by someone else.

My story is a little like Mrs. Bill’s ... out of all my college friends, I’m the one that got married, stayed married and has multiple children.

(My co-workers are blown away that all my kids have the same dad, and he’s still with me. And they envy that.)

Out of my college friends who married, only two of the gals had two children. All the others have only one, or none, or never even got married.

And these are sweet, smart girls from Christian families who would have raised wonderful children who would have blessed the world. It didn’t happen for them. I don’t really know why.

Instead the people who DO have a lot of kids are the ones who probably shouldn’t even have responsibility for a gold fish.