I'm torn on this one. I don't think overall that only wealthy people should be able to have kids. However, in the system we have currently in the US, I do believe that's s sensible individual decision. It may hurt society in the long run, but not having them will probably help you as an individual (financially) in…

Does it really work though? I think there's a whole generation of us who grew up with Disney Princesses and "Pretty Woman" and had this idea that we could just be plucked out of obscurity by some rich guy and live happily ever after. There is a price to pay for all that. I couldn't do it.

Don't give up. It gets discouraging, sweet jeebus I know that. I will spare you all my woeful tales of "lowered expectations" and dating down to match my own perceived "handicaps".

As an educated woman with a fairly good title and position in her mid-20s, marriage, to a man anyway, seems to offer very little to me because the worst possible scenario seems very likely. I get married, my career becomes less important because it pays less than his in most cases, I resent him for making me feel like…

"At the bottom, in contrast, women find slim pickings"