"PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHILDREN STAY YOUNG...

...And all my friends who never had children are looking much older," a middle aged woman said to me last night. She was encouraging me to take on the mentorship and motherly discipline of two wayward teenage girls who are in my apartment building and who I have been concerned about. I didn't say it, because she is a mother, but IT'S JUST THE OPPOSITE IN MY EXPERIENCE. The ones with the children, especially the single mothers, look ten years older than the ones who are deliberately happily childless, like me. I'm frequently guessed to be five to ten years younger than I am, and that's without makeup, fashion, or hairstyles to help the cause...