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  • 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

  • Re: Feminism ended Marriage/Family

    I came to this very interesting post thread a few days late, by way of Blue Skies by way of another Responder to both Blue Skies and MichaelBernard1 on the Iraq War exegesis as to ''how we got here.'' While I sympathize with this female academician and her illustrations greatly, based on her point of view, I have to either disagree or comment ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by MichaelBernard1 on March 31, 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

  • This burns me up!

    Emily, what I think this boils down to is just another example of you acting the Smug Married. I can't find a man to love me. Maybe I'm weird looking, or I have a terrible personality, or maybe I can't meet any nice men. It doesn't really matter. Why would you have me live my life alone, with no family whatsoever? Why would you wish that on ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by just_mad_enough on March 22, 2008

  • Increasing Success in Marriage & Parenting,

    I am a Certified Family Life Educator with many years experience helping couples and families. Your article And Baby Makes TwoForget Juno. Out-of-wedlock births are a national catastrophe.By Emily Yoffe is right on the mark but does not emphasize enough the beneficial affects of having both parents actively involved in the lives of children and ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by bobslate 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

  • Why not just discourage having kids instead?

    Marriage won't save children. And I'm offended that every discussion of human welfare is based on what economic class one ends up in. Do we all really have to buy into that? Having worked with kids for 20 years, having been one, having had them--having lived with divorce--both as a child and as a parent I provide this opinion: Until we ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by GarnerinLA on March 21, 2008

  • More Women Driving Men?

    I've noticed this recently for some reason. Married for 16 years, when I go some place with my wife, I drive. Not out of some machismo or male domination, rather I consider it part of my responsibility as does my wife. Yet I have noticed in my suburbia of Florida- perhaps a microcosm of all Suburbia America given that Target, Walmart, 7-11, ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Usama2 on December 17, 2007