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Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age

by Kay S. Hymowitz
Marriage and Caste in America.
Liberation’s Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age
by Kay S. Hymowitz
Liberation's Children.
 
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Desperate Grandmas
Kay S. Hymowitz

Selected Responses:

Sent by John Mize on 07-25-2006:

Talk about double standards. I'm an aging male baby boomer, and for as long as I can remember, old men have refused to grow old, buying sports cars, chasing after young women, etc. Old men making fools of themselves over very young women was already a stock comic turn when Chaucer used it in the Miller's Tale. Almost every famous man who didn't die young lived to act the fool over very young women. Now that older women are refusing to lie down and die at 60, their refusal is rampant individualism and a threat to the social fabric. Is your next article going to be on how men over 60 who buy sports cars are destroying the country? You know, goose and gander and the accompanying sauce.

Sent by Jeannette Belliveau on 07-24-2006:

My area of focus is female sex tourism, where we see
grandmas heading to the Gambia and the Caribbean for
affection from younger guys. Many make the trip not out of a search for "better than ever" sex, but just to have some aspect of physical appreciation in their lives.

This reflects the ripsaw between the Boomer stress on
healthy sex as a part of a healthy life, and demographics
that create a surplus of older women without prospective
partners in the West, and a surplus of underemployed
men in the developing world.

When Jane Fonda reports six years of celibacy, you know that attractive women who find themselves divorced and past the bloom of youth have a difficult or impossible chance in the mating game!

 

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