Having children because you are worried that your biological clock is going to wind down before you can get knocked up is an *excellent* reason to have children, if you need that tick tick tick to motivate you to get beyond your doubts and ambivalencies.

Oh, I agree. . . That way when the relationship that you had serious doubts over ends or you find yourself trapped in a dead end job making $7 an hour you'll have not one, but two or maybe more unhappy lives to be responsible for.

Seriously, like another reader said, I am happy to have made the choice I made not to have kids when I was neither emotionally nor financially ready for them. If I end up childless than so be it. IMO, that is far better than having a kid I am in no position to take care of.

Maybe I am dumber than a box of hair but after reading this twice, I still have no clue WTH the author is trying to say. Help!

I am a woman and feminist, and I am so grateful that there are books being published that address women and their often complex relationships with money.

A few years ago, I worked for a female financial planner and was amazed at the number of her female clients (overwhelmingly upper-middle class professionals in great jobs) who had no clue about saving money and had nothing whatsoever put away for retirement. (I recall one client who was a lawyer who said that the very thought of financial planning brought on panic attacks.) Working at that company forced me to come to terms with my own fears over money. Even though I eschewed a lot of my mother and grandmother's ideas about women-namely, that a woman's place was in the home and women with children should not work, yet in the back of mind, I always believed that one day I would find a rich man who would take care of me. I am ashamed to admit that, but I honestly think that there are a lot of women out there that think the same until reality comes crashing down on them.

I don't have a problem with this movie being made. I fully believe in freedom of speech and creativity. However, I think the biggest problem with this film is that people are going to take it as the Gospel instead of a ficitionalised even of an acutal event. As one poster pointed out, all the evidence we have suggests that the passengers never made it into the cockpit.

While it's sad that these people died their deaths are no more tragic than the other people who lost their lives on 9/11 or the thousands of soliders and civilians who have died in Iraq.

So, Williams goes from being a self-proclaimed expert on sex to nutrition. Is there anything that this woman does not know? Oh well. . .At least this is an improvement over hearing about her postpartum sex life but then again, that ain't saying much.

I am probably going to get stoned for saying this, but I would take a essay by Aylet Whatshername to Williams any day.

Reading this article brought back memories of my days at my alma matar which is an elite private university an hour or so west of Duke University. Like Duke, most of my classmates where from tony East Coast backgrounds and Greek life played a huge role on campus. (I graduated in 1999 and the Greek rate was well over 60% of the student body.) There was little to no interaction with the town around us and most students appeared to be in their own little bubble. IMO the combination of Privilege + Excess Alcohol + Isolation from the Outside World is a receipe for disaster like the alledged incident at Duke. These kids think they can get away with horrible behaviour because more often than not, they do.

In my own case, I was physically assulted my senior year by an ex-boyfriend who came into my room one night without permission, threw me into a door and then threatened to kill me if I told. I knew I was in trouble when the head of campus police and the honor council more or less said, 'So what? Everyone fights!' and the latter 'warned' me not to say anything that could 'damage' the school's reputation. And I was a student! Had I been a 'townie' I doubt that I would have even gotten my 15 mins before the head of the honor council.

I also did not think that the author was a man-basher at all. Overall, I thought it was a thoughful, well-written piece.

A lot of so-called 'nice guys' (and girls) can engage in awful behaviour when they are in a group and are fuelled by alcohol.

Tom Cruise appears to have some serious control issues. I cannot help but wonder if this name change is an attempt by him to completely erase any traces of Holmes's former idenity.

Does anyone else find it odd that man who gave his daughter the moinker 'Suri Cruise' is saying that 'Katie' is not an appropriate name for a 'child-bearing' woman? 'Scuse me, but how many grown-up, professional women do you know are running around with that name? Sorry, but 'President Suri Cruise' or 'Suri Cruise, Esq.' just doesn't sound right. . .

I would like to hear the kids' side of this. It is entirely possible that the parents were model parents who raised their kids the best they could and alas, heredity won out. Still, I have personally known enough people who have very different perceptions of their up-bringing than their parents.