The Third Alternative

At Domestic Felicity, Anna writes about the dangers of delaying marriage:

However, I do believe we should be aware of the implications of purposefully delaying marriage: the rigidity that naturally develops after many years of living alone, the narrowing pool of singles, the decreased capability of adapting to each other's needs, and (especially for women) decreasing rates of fertility, which might doom a sweet dream of having a large family, leaving a woman with enough time to have only two or three children if she is lucky.

She unintentionally provides a great counterpoint to the junk being posted on the internet after the disclosure that Bristol Palin is pregnant. The secular people don't want pregnancies- believers want pregnancies, but we want to see them happen within marriages, and without sin.

But then in modern times we pretend we don't understand St. Paul, and apparently, if Anna is right about the ages that they marry, plenty of Orthodox Jews are ignoring the Talmud. So, often the modern Christian family has to help their children deal with the after-effects of sin as well as the condition of pregnancy- which could have existed without sin. If we err, we err in our blindness to level of the challenge we've allowed our teens to twenty-somethings to be presented with.