I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker notes that modern generations delay having children until they face midlife transitions.
- In plain terms
- Parents are having kids later, so they teach driving when they hit menopause.
- What can you take from it?
- Family timelines have shifted to later ages.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How has timing of family events changed?
Another view
This humor ignores the medical and financial reasons for delaying parenthood.
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