I guess I never realized that spousal rape only became illegal in 1993. That is f’ing bananas. What the actual shit, man.

Saree Safaree. Take the L

My god, Trump makes Romney look like an excellent human being and presidential candidate in comparison.

College is supposed to be that, but many parents like this will follow them right to college as well. (I work at one, so I see this sort of thing fairly often.) Parents will require that their child maintain constant communication with them (always answering calls or text unless they are in class, making them use…

Love the child you have, not the child you want.

This entire story is just so sad. I grew up similarly, although I skirted the not allowed to do anything with school projects that took place after school which still allowed me some social life. But I wasn’t allowed to date or have sleepovers or go out with my friends on the weekends. All I was allowed to do was…

My Mom specifically told us that if we didn’t want to be doctors, we didn’t have to be doctors. When my brother and I both got liberal arts degrees (I got a bachelors in elementary education and my brother got an English degree), my Mom got asked by other Asian parents why she “let” us get those degrees.

Yeah, one of my best friends is from an Asian immigrant family and the parents told all the kids that they could be doctors, lawyers, or engineers but if they made any other career choices they would be shaming the family and driving their parents to an early grave. One child is a doctor, one is a lawyer, and one is…

Honestly, I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often.

the moral of the story is be nice to your kids.

What? Locking up an ADULT child and restricting their communication is not abuse? It’s a stretch to call imprisonment “abuse”?

Without makeup and hair perfectly coiffed and in regular clothes, I can I also pass for 12 at the age of 28. We hardly see women in their 20s without those things. I’m guessing it’s a problem with our media and entertainment. Most teenage and 20 something characters are played by much older people (some pushing or in…

I count my lucky stars that my Asian parents did not buy into the whole “Tiger parent” crap. While they encouraged my brother and I to do our best and succeed, they never pushed us to be perfect.

Not that it’s terribly important, but for some cultural context: for middle-class Torontonians, going up north to cottage country is a yearly ritual in summer. If your family doesn’t have a cottage, it’s likely that you’ll know someone who does. For a lot of kids, visiting friends at their cottages represents, for…

While she was obviously under a lot of stress, she had her own issues too. Those were some pretty elaborate lies that she concocted.

Because it’s verboten or because those aren’t choices that you want to make for yourself? There’s a difference.

I had a Korean-American boyfriend in college. and he’s story was similar to this. He suffered extreme phsyical abuse at the hands of his mother when he didn’t perform well. He wound up dropping out of college. On one level he was a kind person and loving boyfriend, but he had a real dark side. He was emotionally…

Abuse doesn’t end at adulthood, considering how strict they were, Im sure she endured it for years after her confession came out.

The shooting happened in 2010.