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  • 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

  • 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: Psycho-Dad

    Here's a real question...does the writer remember all of these horrors brought upon the family from his own personal memory, or is he depending upon others to tell him what happened? Did his mom convince all of the children of these horrors, or did they really happen? Changed names, moved to another coast? Why was that necessary after the birth ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by SJ Husak on November 27, 2007

  • Especially since we can't always marry...

    I'm in total agreement... There's a facet here I don't see anyone else thinking about -- if that girlfriend has a disability forcing her to rely on government support, she essentially can't marry. The minute someone in that position does, SSI, Medicaid, personal aides or other necessary services, any affordable housing options, etc. all vanish, ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by kittycalbard on September 13, 2007

  • Love, marriage, and baby carriages

    Tying the two Prudie posts together, as an anthropologist I can say that both of these seem incredibly commonplace and normal, healthy relationships. Apparently, these two women watch too much Lifetime. Millions of years and billions of births later, we seem to have forgotten that most partnerships in this world are forged on the kind of ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Anthrodiva on August 31, 2007