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  • No, you DON'T talk to you mom too much

    I fail to see this as so much a ''Gen Y'' thing as it is a return to ''pre Gen X'' values. I was born in 1959. Growing up, my entire family - grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, both paternal and maternal - lived in the same town or in nearby towns. My mother talked to her mother every day by phone, and often talked to her sisters as well. ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by StellaBlue on May 9, 2009

  • What kind of flower are you, Dahlia?

    Ok, skip the parody tripe this time, that piece on father's rights is dead on we need to acknowledge men's roles she's got it! Daughters need father's take it from one who grew up without one I was always looking for daddy in husbands and the marriages didn't work. I had no idea what men were for. They weren't innocent either their lives had ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Independence on August 5, 2008

  • Evidence?

    So nice of the XXers to blog about how the family courts are allegedly biased against men. Where is the factual evidence? I don't give a hoot about all these anecdotes. Show me some data that say that, all things being equal, a mother will win custody of the children due to gender bias. It's not possible because each case is unique and must be ...
    Posted to XX Factor by parker on August 5, 2008

  • Thank you for writing this!

    ... this story is heartbreaking and infuriating. Of course the elderly are full human beings, have an evolved sexuality, and should have full access to their sexual rights. If our legal and familial institutions are not set up to handle these realities, they need to change. Many cultures have either formal or 'look the other way' valves to ...
    Posted to Family by commentator245 on June 14, 2008