Meghan O'Rourke: “we—I'm 28—can complain that we've by now overdosed on cautionary tales about the travails that lie ahead. On the one hand, conservative commentators like Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead gloomily predict that all the "good men" will be gone by the time we're 30 and counsel that our eggs will be past their prime when we reach 35. (Better get cracking on that ring.) On the other hand, liberal-minded writers like Allison Pearson (author of I Don't Know How She Does It) and Hanauer's "bitches" encourage us to go ahead and make unconventional choices—but when push finally comes to shove, we better beware that living with a man is "claustrophobic," that marriage involves tedious negotiation, that children will impinge on our careers and sex lives, and that co-parenting is a wishful "myth."”

Danielle Crittenden belongs in the first group mentioned by O'Rourke.