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  • Father Rights Trampled On.....

    My husband was married very young, straight out of the Army, to a woman who is from Illinois. They struggled with the realities of marriage and divorced within 2 years, creating two of the most delightful children, ever. The divorce was long, drawn out and eclipsed the length of their marriage. The divorce was also of my husbands own will, ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by lostinthesystem on August 21, 2008

  • 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

  • Writing about your kids

    This piece hit home; I run the group blog DadCentric, and lately I've been wondering when - not if - I should stop telling the world about my kid. (Pauses to let the ''anti-breeders'' spew their vitriol.) This actually has more to do with my general parentblog fatigue than anything else; this may be biting the hands of my readers and fellow ...
    Posted to Family by Surfjay08 on June 5, 2008

  • "The Hitting Hand"

    First of all, I would seriously reconsider your flawed conclusion that ''Simon's upset wasn't a temper tantrum'' I've found that it is possible, for children who are reasonably intelligent, to be raised through rational dialogue alone. Unfortunately, maybe it's time to realize that your child does not belong to this ...
    Posted to Family by vancedecker on May 15, 2008

  • EWW! DC Parents

    Ugh. This column made my skin crawl. What kind of parent fills out college paperwork for their kid? A DC Parent , that's who. She's not an 'Alpha Mother' at all - that would be a strong woman who would allow her children to make mistakes, and fail, on their own. A ''Five Year Plan'' ???? Jesus , lady ! Give me a break. I'm the mother of 4 boys and ...
    Posted to Family by MammacitaSarah on April 28, 2008

  • Re: Why would Goldstein write such an article?

    I had the same reaction: what is B. Goldstein accomplishing by telling us that she faked her son's way into a college curriculum in which he really had no interest? It's not easy to grow up, but we can't do it for our children. My son dropped out of college at 20, lost several jobs until he learned to get to work on time, took a night course on ...
    Posted to Family by Lulu41 on April 28, 2008

  • Re: It's called ADD or AD/HD

    Oh, come on. Personal responsibility is at a historical low in this country. Everything that is in your life can be affected by you to some extent; you therefore have the responsibility to affect it as much as you can to benefit yourself. But, focusing again, a boy who can't concentrate in school is not necessarily suffering from a genetic ...
    Posted to Family by shrike10997 on April 26, 2008

  • This Generation

    I am only 7 years removed from college. But what I see every day at the university I currently work at echoes this latest article from ''The Fray.'' Expectations for the generation currently at university are terrifically low. This boy had not matured enough through high school to care about his future, to the extent that he did not apply to ...
    Posted to Family by shrike10997 on April 26, 2008

  • Alpha mom

    I have to say that I feel really bad for the son of this alpha mom. Paying his rent and groceries, having an x-box...all of the protective measures are clearly sending the message, ''you're incapable, son...you can't do this.'' I'm figuring he's at least 19 by now. What a tragedy to make a young man so ill prepared to take on the world, and worse, ...
    Posted to Family by westphal95 on April 25, 2008

  • Dja ever stop to think

    that Slate throws us these articles like chum on the waters? Seriously, I doubt there even is this mom. It's probably written by some 'bot programmed to incite fury in the Fray membership...
    Posted to Family by Anthrodiva on April 25, 2008
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