Talk:Middle age
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Is it absolutely necessary to push the political tripe? Want to talk about influence? Look at AARP. Businesses tend to hire younger people because they work cheaper. "Age discrimination" has been with us forever. The difference today is that we don't put our old folk out in the field to die in the cold. And they're a lot older these days too. (Not to mention that the average <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/diet.fitness/03/16/obesity.longevity.ap/"> lifespan</a> in the USA is 77.6 years and that makes "middle age" 38.8 (+/- 5?).
The definitions are great. The politics need to be left at home where they can be argued to divorce.
- While you're right that the article shouldn't have stated it categorically as a fact, the proper place to argue would be at Ageism, where the sentence links. ThIS article merely states that ageism exists, which you appear to agree with above. — Asbestos | Talk 15:30, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Then again.... believe it or not, there is a whole world outside the USA, so the definition of "middle age" as being not old, not young, but somewhere in the middle, is more accurate than assigning a specific age, which would be different depending on where in the world you were. MR
35 is middle aged?!?!?! I'm in my late 20s, and 35 is NOT middle aged.
In response to the above poster,40 is middle aged except one of those new fangled ideas which say you're old when you're 30 or even between 25-30 ;) 59.178.22.64 15:09, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Middle-Aged People Raising Families?
The article said the following:
In many Western societies, this is seen to be the period of life in which a person is expected to have settled down in terms of their sense of identity and place in the world, be raising a family, and have established career stability.
Given that divorce is rife in Western societies and given that most people in Western societies do not see the significance of marriage (that is, it is no different to cohabitation) I think the paragraph above probably needs to be revised to removed.
--Knowledge-is-power (talk) 11:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Middle age starts at 40
Middle age starts at 40. It makes sense that way as after 40 is when the risk of certain diseases and heart attacks becomes greater. Also after 40 is when people start getting age-related eye problems. Esvake (talk) 00:21, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
