> Kenneth Boyd wrote:
>
> > Monthly period isn't necessary to carry out baby-sitting.
>
> But the absence removes the requirement for it, given 20 years or so.
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> ??? Is that the time to say I don't understand what you're talking
> about?
It's difficult to need to hire/locate a babysitter when your oldest child is
20+ years old [assuming vaguely normal health.] [In a nuclear family,
anyway]
I apologize for forgetting the basics about kibbutzim [sic?].
> The menopause analog for men has escaped a number of grade-school-level
> medical references, such as the Mayo Clinic Book [1996 version,
> CD-ROM].
> Do you have such an analog in mind?
> *********
> Again I don't get what you're saying. Even if all men were just
> vivacious in their 70+, why would anyone want his child to become an
> orphan during his childhood?
*That* makes your point: i.e., menopause is socially useful circa age
70, under the current medical technology/social security methods in the
Western countries [including Israel].
Objection withdrawn.
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