# Who gives a rat's behind?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gives-a-rats-behind/12615>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 6, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gives-a-rats-behind/12615 "2000-01-06T15:50:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2000, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gives-a-rats-behind/12615/21 "2000-01-10T06:30:00Z")

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O.K., so all of my friends had their kids when they were closer to 40 than to 20. What can I say? Perhaps we’re all dorks who couldn’t find anyone willing to marry us until we were close to middle age. I don’t know (very well) anybody who had children before the age of 24. Not even my parents, who had their first child when they were 25 and 27 and still had time to have seven more kids. Not even the wife of one of my best friends, who’s 22 years younger than my friend, but even she is 24 (and about to have a baby).

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**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gives-a-rats-behind/12615/22 "2000-01-09T19:57:00Z")

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puffington, it isn’t just **this** country. One of the biggest stories in Britain last week was the break-up of Scary Spice’s marriage.

OpalCat: I agree, the man is just butt ugly. And between the film roles he picks and some of the choicer comments he’s made in IRL, he doesn’t seem to like women very much either.

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**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gives-a-rats-behind/12615/23 "2000-01-09T19:58:00Z")

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uh, delete that “in” before “IRL” please …

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