Written for Parents with Kids by a Grandparent with kids - An argument for raising children.

Excerpt
Conventional parents through necessity are multi skilled and able to multi-task. Studying parents have so many roles; the good spouse and parent, the esteemed domestic engineer, the excelling scholar and the chief cook and bottle washer. As for ones sex life, you may as well kiss that goodbye! In truth, you demand an accomodating partner,one who appreciates your hours, mood swings, weariness, job related chit chat, complains and whines, and needless to say your exhaustion and lack of doing anything in the bedroom (or anything else) except sleeping - for quite a while! A student partner really needs a partner who acknowledges that occasionally, dinner is not just behind schedule, it is still in the freezer, at the supermarker, burnt to a cinder, soaking in the sink, or still mooing and yes, guess what everyone, it is fast food take-away again. In reality one transforms into a master speed chef of microwave cuisine. Essentially what every woman needs is a reliable knight in self-shining armour with the patience of a saint plus a sensitive new age approach to everything - a bit of a fool's paradise, so dream on. Alas the demands often take their toll. From experience and memory, virtually everyone in my student nurse group finished up divorced. I witness history repeating itself time and time again as students come through my centre, juggling study and their kids devoid of a partner for support.