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As a thirty-five-year-old member of Generation X, I'd like to see an article about all the women in my peer group, working or not, who will be unable to have children at all due to current economic conditions. It's almost impossible to have kids and retain a toehold in the middle-class today, unless you inherit a good bit of money, work as a doctor or high-paid lawyer or engineer, or get lucky on the stock market. Teachers, nurses, librarians: those jobs just won't cut it. Perhaps I should rephrase this concern as retaining a toe-hold in the "upper-middle" or "upper-class," since there really isn't much of a middle-class lifestyle to speak of anymore.
