Marrying Young is Like Living in a Muslim Country This title belongs to FOXNEWS. It is what Andrea Tantaros titled the interview we taped yesterday. You may watch it below. Remember the great moment in the film My Cousin Vinnie when Marisa Tomei stamps her foot and says to her fiancee Joe Pesci: My biological clock is ticking? Well, this subject is well upon us. Today, I appear on FOX discussing Marry Smart. Look: the author, Susan Patton, is like a worried Jewish mother who sits down with her daughter and tells her to please get married young and start having kids as soon as possible. Patton is no more of an expert than that. Clearly, she has touched a nerve. Female fertility is not the same as male fertility and delayed childbearing has consequences. But so does putting off creating a career. As I said, I stand with Virginia Woolf who said that every woman needs 500 pounds a year (economic independence) and a room of her own. Especially if that woman plans to marry and have children. Good husbands get sick, lose their jobs, die, or walk out. A woman needs to be able to feed herself and her family. These days, most couples both work because, unless someone has inherited wealth, two incomes are often, not always, essential. And, bitter divorce and custody battles cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Patton has blamed feminists for demeaning stay-at-home mothers or mothers who prize mothering. As Sojourner Truth once said: Am I not a women...and as I say: Am I not a feminist? And I have written four books about motherhood, launched campaigns on behalf of mothers and children for more than forty years. I am also a mother myself. One pays a high price for being both a dedicated intellectual and activist AND a mother. The balancing act is a high wire wonder. video.foxnews/v/3357776761001/chesler-marrying-young-like-living-in-a-muslim-country/#sp=show-clips
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:38:50 +0000
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