Actually, there's very little research on intimate partner violence within LGBTQ relationships, but much of the better research on it suggests that rates of violence within same-sex relationships are roughly the same as rates within heterosexual relationships. If lesbians are beating each other up at the same rates…

God, that is so fucking true.

My son babbles about car carrier trucks all the time. All day long. I guess if when he is old enough, he steals a car carrier truck and takes it for a joyride, I can only blame myself for not listening to all his super interesting talk.

Go watch your children, how can you be typing online? A tragedy with your child is inevitable if you are not watching them right now!

A crazy parent whose daughter takes soccer with my daughter called the cops on me last month, for "child abandonment". I "abandoned" my daughter at the soccer class with the teacher while I took my other 2 children to the toilet. The teacher never leaves a kid alone, but while she went in the closet to put the soccer…

There is a world of difference between people who forget their child while heading into work—and that is something that I understand and fear—and those who run into a store for five minutes. The Weingarten piece is about people whose routines are changed in just a tiny way, while the Brooks piece is about someone who…

That's a really fair set of points. All those things have improved, and I am certain, as you say, the internet has helped. If for no other reason, for the sheer amount of awareness it brings.

Gods, yes. My mother became a Wiccan when she was in her 30's. Not that there is anything wrong with that as a choice for religions, but she somehow decided the Necronomicon (yep, Cthulhu) was an actual account written by an actual person.

I'm with you, it shouldn't be so easy for kids to get ahold of guns. But I have to disagree that being taught how to use a gun at an early age is a bad thing or that it causes you to love guns or want to kill. I grew up in a rural area where people still hunt for food. I mean, we actually eat the stuff we kill…

But her bra sure was!

Someone beat you to it

Woah, hold up there... Do you have, like, an Etsy store or something?....

Oh, they were both looking Right At You.

Look, I'm a little old fashioned in that I'm a fan of my daughter dressing up for her viola recital, her school orchestra concert, church on Sundays and a million other events (and yes, some of them occur during a particular school day). And she loves doing that.

Bring back the 70's?

This is much ado about nothing. Different places have different dress codes. Boys at my school were "called out" for dress code violations just as much as the girls (for not wearing belts/sagging pants, primarily). Teaching young people that not everything in life is "come as you are" is helpful. I work in a law…

Canadian teen, busted for the terrible sin of wearing shorts on a hot day

Of course they can't be used to understand individuals. While the average female does have a superior sense of smell than the average male(as the article stated this difference was noticeable at every age), this doesn't tell you anything about individual women and men. I actually dated a woman that had anosmia and…

oh ya, my dad was a champ at chores. I actually called him a while ago to figure out how to get a stain out of my sink. But I am reminded of the fact that correlation does not imply causation. It could be that seeing their fathers do chores is what inspired them. It could also be that men who do more then pay lip…

Seeing how my dad acted made me resolve to marry a partner, not cowtow to gender expectations in the home. My mother was such a bad ass, but seeing how she had to cook every night after working all day (longer hours than my dad), did my dad's laundry, and still had to eat standing up in the kitchen while my dad sat…