“The State Of the Black Family” - link in Glenn’s post is worth reading. It is a book title. A year ago, I coined a phrase “In the back of the marriage line”, as I contemplated young candidates standing in a rank-ordered line to marry the 22-year old daughter and son of a PhD Biologist/scientist colleague from undergrad. Ideally, parents want their children to be first in marriage line. My concept is about parents competing with other parents, youth competing with other youth; but most importantly the individual competing with himself. At age 22, I would have been in the middle of marriage line. At age 35, in the first 20% of line. Today, I could stand among the top 4% in marriage line if my colleague’s 22-year old children want to marry grandpa-Hepworth. They could help me with my cane, double-check batteries in my hearing aid, increase the font-size on my computer and keep young kids off my lawn. I want every 22-year old to have the knowledge/skills that I have at age 56.
“The State Of the Black Family” - link in Glenn’s post is worth reading. It is a book title. A year ago, I coined a phrase “In the back of the marriage line”, as I contemplated young candidates standing in a rank-ordered line to marry the 22-year old daughter and son of a PhD Biologist/scientist colleague from undergrad. Ideally, parents want their children to be first in marriage line. My concept is about parents competing with other parents, youth competing with other youth; but most importantly the individual competing with himself. At age 22, I would have been in the middle of marriage line. At age 35, in the first 20% of line. Today, I could stand among the top 4% in marriage line if my colleague’s 22-year old children want to marry grandpa-Hepworth. They could help me with my cane, double-check batteries in my hearing aid, increase the font-size on my computer and keep young kids off my lawn. I want every 22-year old to have the knowledge/skills that I have at age 56.