Just Your Average 68-Year-Old College Freshman.
Some of my student friends come from countries with the highest birthrates on earth.
You’d never guess that from watching the mating rituals at our community college. They’re either invisible or they don’t exist. The birds are locked in their aviaries, the bees are in distant colonies, flirtations are checked at security. Where are the glands?
It’s a cultural thing, of course, and I’m totally blind to it. Those of us born and raised in the mainstream American culture have our own idea of what romance and courtship should look like. Even in recent decades, our millennial children have grown up with very public displays of affections from the likes of Archie, Betty and Veronica.
Census numbers don’t lie. Newcomers to our society continue to have larger than average families. There’s a whole lot of something going on here but I’m too midcentury and Middle American to recognize it.
