[ellebud]

Yes. Her parents said just that. After all, the reasoning went, after college your access to single men (especially as a teacher) was going to be limited. And, if you met and married a teacher....how could you make a living? She didn't marry a doctor btw.

I must say that during my time I was discouraged from doing anything other than become a secretary. Yes world...a secretary. Not that there is anything wrong with being a secretary, but that was a life's goal...other than getting married.

And sending the son to med school and not the daughter: One of my friends had exactly this: She went to a junior college (and got married for the first time young) while her brother (the anointed one) went to med school.

....Oh, and the age at which you had to marry or your life was over? Twenty-five. That's it...twenty five. I did well. I married younger than that. (yeah me!!)