[ImpBill]

I don't want to appear or sound unkind here, but you made the choice to raise a family into your later life. We all make choices and not planning for being somewhat financially secure by age 59 was a choice this fellow made. Actually I would rather think that he didn't even give it a thought 35 years earlier.

We live in a culture where personal responsibility and accepting the consequences for "our" choices somehow have been relegated to someone else.

[ContraryMary]

don't want to appear or sound unkind here, but you made the choice to raise a family into your later life.

It wasn't a choice. Or are you assuming that as a woman it's my right to choose? There aren't many "pro-choice" Freepers. Sorry to see you're one of them.