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  • Sibling keeper -- Emotional "incest"?

    There's a kind of inappropriate emotional closeness, it can be subtle sexualization, substitution of a child for a partner, or emotional intimacy inappropriate to a child.. Anyway, it seems that the woman writing about when she was ten and her mother confided her husband's affair to her and then expected her to simply ''forget'' it or ''get over ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by bobethomas on July 17, 2008

  • Life and Death

    The answer Prudence gave to Life and Death about the care of monor children following both parents deaths was incomplete. Such things should definitly be planned for through wills by all parents, remote as the possibility is that such an event may happen. The reasons that couples with new babies select ''Godparents'' is traditionally for exactly ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Rojasp on April 13, 2008

  • marriage does not guarantee success

    I take issue with the idea that ''out-of-wedlock births are a national catastrophe''. I believe the national catastrophe is a lack of accountability. I think that single parents raising childred without the support of the absent parent should be looked at as ''deadbeat parents are a national catastrophe''. The parents remaining with the ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by jylmama on March 22, 2008

  • Unwed Mothers

    I just finished reading your article. In my opinion, you must have grown up in a reasonably stable home, with your father always present and providing for your family. You must be in your mid-twenties to write something so naive. Newsflash lady, you are one of the lucky ones if you were so fortunate to have a stable environment provided for you, ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by insearchofme28 on March 22, 2008

  • people say it's bad

    ok so you have people who think pregnancy out of marraige is bad and it causes a lot of pain... they also say that it can lead to unsuccessful people, and more unmarried pregnancies... I decided to reply to this because I am a child of an un married pregnancy woman... when my dad left i was to young to realise it but i knew enough that he was ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by musykalmayhem on March 21, 2008