Getting the Most Out of College

This is this big national news story about a mother of two students at Princeton writing an opinion piece suggesting that girls at Princeton try to get married while still at school.  It's brought about numerous op-eds in return and commentary on national networks, like NBC and ABC, and articles in major publications such as The Atlantic and New York magazines.

I am not here to debate the wisdom of the original opinion article, and whether it's smart or old-fashioned or understandable or thoughtless.  I'll just say this --

I suspect that the advice from a mother than girls get married before graduating college is the same advice about 80-90% of all mothers (and fathers) give their daughters.  That doesn't make it right or wrong -- but it does make me wonder why this is a national news story??

Next national controversy:  finishing your vegetables before getting dessert.  Good health or corporal punishment.