By 32, she really should be making rice crispy cakes with her own daughter.

Its one of the first things to "cook" with kids as they love eating it and its very simple to make. My mother was making those things with me well before I started school. At Easter one usually makes them a bit bigger and puts a couple of chocolate mini eggs on top to make a "nest" Small kids love it but she has missed all that and it makes me feel strangely sorry for her, even though it is likely her own choices that have taken her there. Anyone can mess up and society is urging women to do a lot of things badly.

Instead her own mother is still making her the cakes. You can imagine the mother's pain and frustration at the lack of grandchildren to bake with.

Womanhood does not stand still. From the beginning of our people in the west, we have celebrated the 3 forms -girl, mother and grandmother. They all can be great but they all require that the woman does not stand still. A lazy woman is a ruined woman. Women can have it really good if they embrace their opportunities and act kindly. That is about all it requires really to succeed as a woman but if you don't its a very lonely place to be post wall, faced with all the weakness and anxiety of your sex, being a burden on society and with no one to have your back.

The problem that our youth as a whole has, is failure to launch. Women are the ones hardest hit by it as they have an earlier biological use by date than men and they find it much harder to get into anything lasting the older they get.