Most of my college friends have been extremely successful money wise. Relationships ... not so much. One never married. ONe was married three times, has one son who is gay. One got married at age 30 and had her first and only child at 40. All but one of the child’s grandparents are gone. Because the one uncle is not married, there are no cousins. Another one married and had one child but so late in life that all the cousins are way older. Another one married fairly young but was only able to have one child.
These girls would have raised wonderful families if they had a chance but it seems like life didn’t turn out that way for them. They are the kind of gals who should have had big families and passed along their intelligence, morals and good work ethic but it just didn’t happen.
Sad ...
Of all my friends, I married the youngest at 28 and had the most kids. We only have three but it’s a big family in some circles.
I graduated in 1989. One of my college roommates got her degree in Chemistry and had four children and was working in the oil industry, the last I heard. Another went to law school, married and divorced, no children. Another is a doctor, two children. The last married while still in college, divorced, eventually remarried, no children.
I have ten children. I was just talking with my mother about long-term care insurance, following my father’s death from Alzheimer’s Disease, and she said, “You probably can’t get insurance, but surely one of the children will take care of you,” and she’s right: the 9th!