I?m finding this thread really alienating. Stereotypes diminish people. Are those the choices? Children or career? Do you have to choose one? What if you choose neither? What if you can?t have either? Is that it then? Angela, you say that freedom is important but the tragedy is that putting people into pigeon holes is putting them into shackles. ???????? Horror of horrors; just as I thought that this thread couldn?t get more alienating I read the sentence ?mothers??. are doing the toughest (and most important) job in the world?. Such arrogance. (No, I?m not anti-mother, anti-child, anti-couple, anti-men, anti-single person, anti-career person or anti-anything). BTW Angela, ED on a weekday afternoon isn?t typical; it?s just one facet of the area.