The only real pearls of wisdom that I could cull from this article was that marriage before parenthood fosters the deliberation process in couples that serves both them and their children well. We as single women need to deliberately improve our own communication with casual and committed sexual partners about contraception in order to prevent ill-deliberated pregnancies and the subsequent shotgun weddings and single parenthood alike. If we are talking about unwed teen parents or unwed couples in their twenties, I think it stands to reason that the focus of Dear Prudence's next article should probably be the evolving culture of family planning and contraceptive educational policy.