'Just Sprinkle A Little Kiddy-Cocaine On Your Child's Applesauce'

Post #1: How is it humanly possible for people in their mid to upper 30's to have a fourteen year old child?

Well let's see, a man and a woman age twenty five procreate and fourteen years later they have a fourteen year old child. It addresses what you wrote but apparently it doesn't address the point you had floating in your head which you couldn't manage to get the point across.

Post #2: The point of my post is to point out that the early twenties is WAY too young to have a child, unless a parent:
-Got married right out of high school
-Had an "accident"
-Somehow graduated from college at 16 and got a killer job
-Are named Whoopi Godberg

I understand what you are saying. And, post #1 is not at all like the point you make in post #2. But I may also understand how you easily slip into subjectivity because having a baby and getting married are two different things which if you can't tell the difference and thus sloppily use it nonetheless you're not likely to comprehend the finer nuances. Not to mention that apparently you think that only people with killer jobs qualify to be parents, or must they also be a college graduate to qualify?

Tell you what, stick to nature and drop the social engineering, IMO.

I think we'll soon be adding "Asberger's" (Geek) syndrome to the latest of junk science diagnoses, if Time magazine's recent issue is any indication.

Seems this is the dysfunction du jour for the "gifted" children of middle aged parents who spent so much time building their children's brains that they forgot to teach them any social skills.

Essentially what I am saying is that people should not have children unless they are 1)Married 2)Emotionally Mature 3)Financially able to support a family. These attributes are not very common for someone in their late teens and early twenties.

These Days.

Children are precious and they should not be treated as commodities. Parents should be able to devote their entire selves to raising a family. This means usually having one parent stay at home to raise their children.

He goes on to say that studies have proven that kids with "ADHD" tend to own their own businesses and do very well in society, WITHOUT Ritalin or other drugs.

Without Ritalin in the morning I can't hold a thought for more than five minutes, much lessmanage a business. I'm a severe case, one of the few for whom medication is a good thing.

squick, squick, squick...

Good catch. I smelled clams with the first paragraph...

Mary Poppins sang: "A little bit of sugar helps the medicine go down.
the medicine go down
the medicine go down."

Are those dirty clams going to argue with Mary Poppins now?

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