I think a big part of it is that dystopian and paranormal YA books have a lot of "crossover" appeal to adults whereas realistic teen books don't as much. I'm 36 and have no interest in reading about a bunch of teens if all it's going to be is normal high school drama type stuff (yawn). But I've loved dystopian fiction…

The weird thing is that my dad's college roommate has daughters who are only 1 and 2.5 years older than my oldest child. Granted his wife is a bit younger than my mom, but she's still much closer to my mom's age than to mine.

Seriously! I could understand people thinking I might be the big sister when it was just my mom and me out with my daughter as a baby. We could've plausibly been early 40's mom, teenaged big sister, and baby instead of 49 y.o. grandma, 25 y.o. mom, and baby.

She missed the nosy questions about college and occupation. People make the rudest assumptions that if you have kids in your 20's you couldn't possibly be a college graduate or have a decent-paying white collar job.

I was skeptical about "Divergent" for the same reason but finally one of my friends wore me down with her raves about it. So I decided to borrow the first 2 books from the library. They are an entertaining read. Better than "Legend" by Marie Lu and "Birthmarked" by Caragh O'Brian, about the same as "Enclave" by Ann…

I could've sworn that it was already announced Julianne Moore has been cast as Coin.

Carmela doesn't deserve to be lumped in with Betty and Skylar. Sure, Carmela definitely had her faults but she had her redeeming qualities too, like keeping her family first always. She was an overly indulgent mom to Meadow and A.J. but she wasn't cold like Betty. Her flirtation with Furio never crossed the line into…

This list should read "worst cities that the yuppies who read 'The Daily Beast' would actually consider living in". The typical DB reader would never in a million years consider living in a high-crime city like Oakland, Baltimore, Detroit, Camden, NJ, etc.

But Xers did not mooch off their parents well into their 20's like Millennials. You're blaming that on a later age at marriage, when there really isn't a major difference between the two generations.

I don't think Gen Xers in general got married much earlier than Millennials. The median age at marriage was 26.1 in 1990, 26.9 in 1995, and 27.0 in 2005. It did jump up to 27.6 in '08 (first year of the Great Recession) and 28.1 in '09 (2nd year) but we're still talking only 1-2 years older than the Xers.

I was born in '77 and definitely am a Xer (cynical, self-reliant, not a "digital native", not materialistic, etc.) My youngest brother was born in '85 and is a stereotypical Millennial (idealistic, entitled, ridiculously tech-savvy, supermaterialistic, etc.) My middle brother was born in '81, however, and he isn't…

Not every girl who joins a sorority does so in order to hook up with frat brothers. I pledged a sorority because I met a bunch of cool upperclass girls through my classes freshman year and the one thing that they had in common was being in the chapter I ultimately pledged (my school had spring rush).

I don't think age of the mother has anything to do with it. I've seen big babies born to women in their 20's and small babies born to women in their 30's. The biggest of my 3 was my oldest, born when I was 25. My mom's biggest was her 2nd, born when she was 27.

South Asians tend to be on the smaller side in general, not just weight but also height. I have several Indian-American friends who are TINY (<5 ft. and <100 lbs). They grew up middle-class (or above) here in the U.S. so it's not a matter of having been malnourished but almost certainly genetics.

I think it's all your perspective. Almost all the babies in my extended family have been in the 6 to 7 lb. range so when my middle brother was 8.5 lbs. he looked HUGE to me. The funny thing is that as an adult, he's on the smaller side (5'8" and 150 lbs.)

At least at the top colleges, legacy admits have similar educational qualifications to non-legacies. The average SAT score for Harvard's legacy admits is a mere 2 pts. lower than the average for non-legacies. The same cannot be said for affirmative action admits.

I believe there should be affirmative action for students from low-income families and for students whose parents did not attend college. But kids of black and Hispanic yuppies should not be receiving any special consideration. They may face some residual racial/ethnic discrimination, but class privilege far outweighs…

"Christians in particular have a higher divorce rate than atheists and agnostics."

Well, I *DON'T* think feminism is about "reproductive rights" or hot-button sexual morality issues. Feminism is about equal treatment under the law, equal pay for equal work given equal qualifications, equal opportunity to pursue education/careers/sports/etc., and in general eliminating gender discrimination.

Middle children are the WORST! Seriously, almost every "black sheep" of his/her family I know is a secondborn. The main exception seems to be if the oldest is a girl and the second is a boy and he is treated more like an oldest than a middle.