Hi and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on I Heart Radio. Early January is the most popular time of the year for single people to join an online

dating site. I mean it makes sense right they made it through the holidays with

every annoying relative asking them when they plan to get married and

this is their time to take the bull by the horns and decide to find their person.

New Year, New You and for many people that means a new mate. So what's interesting about this, I think, is that it's usually an influx of men hitting these sites at this time of the year. Now why is that surprising? It's because

popular culture makes it seem as if men are holding off from getting into

relationships as long as they can and them joining dating sites shows that maybe that's not so.

The idea that men can wait indefinitely to get married or have children is really a lie and I think that it's one that really needs

exposing. Yes men can have children into old age but why would they want to? For a long

time men were told that their dating and mating life

could continue indefinitely.

I mean, Hollywood does it all the time, right?

Steve Martin became a first-time dad at 67. Rod Stewart had kids in his 60s,

Larry King, Woody Allen, list of 60-plus-year-old dads goes on and on.

But as I like to tell my single male friends, you're not

Rod Stewart. You're not going to have a team of people to help you raise your

kids. You're going to get mistaken for the kids grandpa a lot. kids'

a lot and it won't feel great.

You can't wear leather pants and talking a British accent.

It's just not the same.

Even setting aside the growing concerns from the medical

community that a father's age can factor into various issues a child may have,

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