Children's Problem

• In 1997, the median age for a first marriage was 27.4 for women and 29.5 for men.
• The college-educated are more likely to marry eventually. Nine out of ten wait until after they marry to have children.
• A large portion of those without college educations have a child before...

Research shows that children are proficient at learning a second language up until the age of 18, roughly ten years later than earlier estimates.

It also shows that it is best to start another language by age ten if you want to achieve the grammatical ability of a native speaker.

• Born in 1685 in Germany, Bach was in a dynasty of musicians, though his mother and father died before he turned ten.
• Even as an orphan, he got into what he loved, starting with organ music as a court musician, composing for church services.
• This added a flavour of the de...