It’s true enough anecdotally....My mom and her generation referred to these as “change of life babies.” (Snarkier later generations usually refer to them as “oopsies!”)

I totally get what you’re saying but my sister doesn’t like being referred to as my mom’s stepdaughter. She thinks it sounds cold and I could see a “step” mom and “step” daughter using a different term out of endearment. I always joke my mom only married my dad because she was so into my sister who was a toddler. My…

I love the rock.

That certainly seems to be the way a lot (if not most) people see it. We’ve always used it to indicate something that was planned and facilitated by the parents vs just asking your parents if you could go to a friends house and then heading over. That seems to be completely out of a lot of people’s frame of reference…

I know it’s not rare for people to go to Vancouver Island for Eco-Tourism, but anytime anyone mentions my home I get all giddy!

Thinkgeek! They are sold out, but I found some on amazon :)

No but for real where did she get that.

wait. you. LIKE. manbuns??

Of topic: My sister bought my father a Tribble for his birthday. It vibrates and purrs and screams and is motion activated. It’s my favorite family member.

Head-Tribbles.

Disembodied hair skeeves me out, man.

Already making ‘Merica Great Again.

Hello rapist

I hope his wife also opens her eyes and divorces him. I assume they don’t have a prenup. If he won’t go to prison, I hope at least hollywood’s nastiest lawyers bleed him dry

I hope suing rapists (and also their supporters) for defamation becomes a trend. A couple big judgments and people might start thinking twice about calling rape victims liars.

I am ever so reluctant to pull this card, but having been a victim of sexual abuse myself along with my cousins, I just hate this piece of shit.with my entire soul. As a man I was not allowed to talk about it. I was called a liar by my own family as were my two women cousins. The horror never ends. It has permeated…

I’m gonna say this smells like bullshit, especially since the college isn’t named. It sort of sounds like another of those “LOL, those wacky Asians!” stories that are almost always nonsense.

Yeah, I don’t “do wealth” either. I’ve never met any of these pinteresting, precious parents that the other commenters are so obsessed with but I still have trouble making ends meet. I have trouble fulfilling all of my duties as a an employee and still being there for my daughter and husband. I’m lucky when my…

You know a lot of this purity culture stuff exists in middle and high school? The parents who want their children to grow up in that subculture rarely want them to leave once they hit 18, but they don’t want their children to be completely uneducated either. The compromise is schools like Liberty and Bob Jones…

Often times clergy—and by extension, seminary students who are in the procses of becoming clergy—are expected to abstain from sex outside of marriage. You might have to sign something at some point saying that you intend to abide by a certain code of conduct (which is not exclusively or even primarily about sex). And…

Same. I always knew this as a church thing. We did have to sign drug-free-for-life pledges for DARE in middle school. At the time I had no intention of ever touching the demon weed, but I didn’t want to sign because you just never know how life will change you and I wasn’t prepared to make a promise I might not keep…