Increasingly Older Parents Are Ruining It for Everyone

Tracy Moore

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As you've no doubt heard before, people waiting until longer to procreate — which has increased dramatically in the last half-century — is not just some hermetically sealed Great Idea that will solve all your career, family and relationship probs and allow you to "have it all." Nope. It's a ticking time bomb with its own unique set of doomsday scenarios that will lead to the breakdown of human existence as we know it, a dystopian horror story of swelling numbers of dodderingly old parents, developmentally disabled children and a dwindling population. Last-minute shocker: It could possibly all be helped with men doing more of something, but will they? Could they? Should they? Do they even want to? Naaaah. More »