My friend's first husband once asked about a fancy hotel bar's "cru-dight" appetizer. I don't think it contributed to their divorce, but you never know....

When I was getting an ultrasound of my first baby, the registration form included a space for "D. o. C.". I asked what that meant and was told "Date of Confinement", i.e., due date. So yeah, antiquated ideas about pregnant women staying out of view are alive and well in various insidious ways.

And it never goes the other way. No one asks a 26-year-old "What if you decide later you don't want a baby? Are you sure you want to go off birth control?"

Midwives (real ones) are the best! I loved mine so much.

ETA, "to help them give birth". Stupid kinja. (OK, stupid lack of proofreading skills.)

You can call yourself "doctor" if you have a Ph.D. in literature. You could also call yourself "doctor" without the degree without criminal penalty. Misrepresenting yourself as an M.D. can land you in prison, depending on the state.

Oh, god, please don't say "torn" while discussing birth. My baby is about to be 14, and I still haven't gotten over that particular trauma.

Well, it's probably too late now.

A "certified nurse-midwife" has to be qualified, even in the US. A "midwife" doesn't. Kind of the way all kids of woo-types can call themselves "doctor", but "M.D." is a heavily regulated title.

It depends. A certified nurse midwife has a nursing degree plus more education to become a midwife, and has to pass a test. A "lay midwife", I think, can be anyone who can convince women to trust her to them give birth. Both my births were attended by CNMs in a hospital, although my second baby was delivered by…

Unless you're saying that the parents should pre-taste everything for their kids, which most parents don't, I'm not sure what you mean.

Not for bigger kids, but it could be really dangerous for the 2-year-old.

My first strawberry daiquiri was when I was two, and I finished it. I buy this.

When I was 2, my alcoholic uncle got me drunk on strawberry daiquiris because he thought it would be funny. I, apparently, drank them without a fuss.

It's entirely likely that the only options were sex; or resist, get raped anyway, and then go to jail. This guy needs a beatdown.

Fair enough. I think I skipped right to the seemingly random use of that one word, because it was so jarring. Honestly I didn't make the connection with cute, but can I see it now.

I think he's perplexed as to why the second guy called her a n****r at all. Obviously, it's not ok under any circumstances, but under these particular circumstances, it's also baffling. Does that word mean something different in England?

K-Mart didn't get your message. Seriously? They're destroying Thanksgiving! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/03/kma…

My kids' Jewish preschool didn't do Halloween because of its Christian roots. Never mind that every single family in the school celebrated Halloween at home. The kids got to dress up for Purim instead.

I once went into an A.C. Moore looking for Passover stickers, and the woman directed me to a rack of Jesus fish and the like. "Will these work?" Um, no. Not really. Thanks, though.