Yeah, I TAed for a math Ph.D.-turned high-powered consultant-turned lecturer after very early retirement who said that he saved up firing lawyers as a special treat for bad days . . .

Just wandered through your comments. Your set seems angrier than my set, maybe because I expect alsoelsewhere to call me bourgeois, or maybe because my flist doesn't include as many parents. For me, questions of children are extremely hypothetical, so the issues are more housework (I tend to concur that tolerance for messiness is a feminist virtue, but my own mental tolerance appears to be more than my health can take, and we haven't quite sorted that one yet) and choice (in the sense that we want to think of ourselves as agents rather than victims, and haven't found a good way to talk about situations where both descriptions hold).