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re: "Babies" Having Babies

Clearly, any article that describes the dilemmas of "young" parents, age 28 (using the same language of regret-for-lost-childhood once reserved for teenage mothers), has a hidden agenda: To make all of those fortysomething readers feel better about themselves. For if 28 is the new 18, then 38 must be the new 28 ... and 48 the new 38!

Subtle message to readers: You're not as old as you thought you were!