JQuery :: Triggering Handlers For Native Events

Am I the only person who finds wildly wrong the jQuery behavior of handler invocation for native events on state-changing elements like check boxes and radio boxes?Specifically, when the user clicks a check box or a radio box, the state of the element is changed and then the handler is invoked.However, when I call"click()" on the elements, the handler is invoked *before* the element value is updated. That makes it pointlessly difficult to write handler routines that need to look at the value to know what to do.