Smaller families meant that those children could be indulged. Weeks believes that women still want emotional security, but are less concerned with formalising it and more likely to formulate their own ideas of trust and responsibility. Women are taking advantage of freedom that, until now, they have never had in such abundance'. I can't stand a night in. I don't do that.
Some women do.
I just lead men on. Tease them a bit. Renshaw adds that women's increased earning power and associated work commitments mean that 'time is at a premium. Women are less prepared to put up with relationships that are clearly not working - and freedom is a highly prized commodity'. Hardly surprising, then, that we are seeing a decline in agony aunts' advice on snaring a man and hauling him, yelping for mummy, to choose flowers and agree on the order of service.