1. Tim Stafford, As Our Years Increase (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1989), 17.
2. T. J. Matthews, Brady E. Hamilton, “American Women Are Waiting to Begin Families,” http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/02news/ameriwomen.htm (accessed July 29, 2007).
3. U.S. Census Bureau, “Facts for Features,” http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006560.html (accessed July 29, 2007).
4. CDC Press Release, “American Women Waiting to Have Families,” http://library.adoption.com/parenting-and-families/american-women-waiting-to-begin-families/article/8200/l.html (accessed July 29, 2007).
5. “Sandwich Generation,” Fairlady magazine, December 2006, http://www.women24.com/Fairlady/Display/FLYArticle/0,,806_l 1671,00.html (accessed July 29, 2007).
6. Equality and Human Rights Web site, http://www.eoc.org.uk/Default.aspx?page=15440 (accessed July 29, 2007).
7. Charles R. Swindoll, Growing Wise in Family Life (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Press, 1988), 152.
8. Ann Rowe Seaman, America’s Most Hated Woman (Continuum, 2005), 149.
9. I do not have this watch any longer. The watch I wear I got from my grandfather on his deathbed. For twenty bucks, plus tax.
10. Figures are from the Office of National Statistics. (I kid you not. I researched this. You can too!) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=353216&in_page_id=1879 (accessed 10/12/2007)
11. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (New York, Harper & Row, 1972), 2.
12. Cheri Fuller, When Couples Pray: The Little Known Secret to Lifelong Happiness in Marriage (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2001), 12.
13. Cynthia Crossen, “Americans Have It All (But All Isn’t Enough),” The Wall Street Journal, September 20 1996.
14. “Marriage Brings Wealth, Divorce Steals It” by LiveScience staff posted at, http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/060118_wealth_marriage.html (accessed October 4, 2007).
15. “Limousine Liberal Hypocrisy,” Time magazine, March 2007, www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1599714,00.html (accessed October 10, 2007).
16. Okay, she was not my wife until later, she was my girlfriend…at least, I was hoping she would be.
17. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_J._Harris (accessed July 29, 2007).
18. “65 Year Old Woman in India Gives Birth,” FuturePundit, April 9, 2003, http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/001124.html (accessed October 4, 2007). The case is made all the more remarkable by the fact that the average life expectancy for a female in India is sixty-three.