Oh rilly?

Yeah, I'm a total douche for thinking that your life shouldn't have to revolve entirely around your kids once they're grown, self-sufficient adults, and that raising their kids should be primarily their responsibility.

Grndparents shouldn't be obligated. Not to mention many are still working themselves or have other issues.

I thought I needed to do this. With five children I was looking at part time work so I could continue to do everything at home as well. But part time work is hard to come by and you hardly ever get to choose what *kind* of work you do if the hours are paramount.

Yes!! People should feel allowed to take their free time in their middle age and spend it on the interests and hobbies and friends they've had to neglect over the years to make all their responsibilities work. Telling them "oh, you can use that time to raise some more kids!" just seems so unfair.

That's super helpful for those of us who have dead or ailing parents, if they live in a different part of the country, or simply want to work on their golf game more than change diapers.

All of these problems can be avoided by discussing with your partner what's going to happen when kids come before you get married and before you're expecting. AS LONG AS BOTH PARTIES THEN ACT ACCORDINGLY AFTER THE MARRIAGE AND THE KIDS COME. I see this all the time in comments sections. Ugh. Wow, all you people who…

I completely agree with you that would be a wonderful thing to have and I wish I had parents like that, but I can also easily see why, if you raised your kids, you feel like you did your part and don't feel like doing it again for your grandkids, when you're suddenly more free from work and family commitments…

It's absolutely disgusting that victims of violent crime have to raise money to get their medical bills covered.

"I shall avenge you!"

But this article says it's wrong to even ask the question. That to do it is to victimize her exactly as the rape victims are being shamed/blamed. That is the part of the article I take particular issue with.

If there's ever a woman involved on any level, people will zoom right past the male perpetrator and find some way to focus blame on her.

I judge the hell out of Mama June for blinding herself to her daughter's molestation. It's not a lot better when it's other people's daughters your husband is abusing. The silence of the women in their lives, when they have reason to know, absolutely allows these men to get away with predation.

I think there's some danger in conflating victims of abuse or rape and wives who stay with those who abuse/rape. Saying "I'd never have gone home with that date rapist" and asking why someone didn't leave a marriage to an abuser or rapist are totally different things that shouldn't be lumped together.

Black electrical tape over all the little power indicator lights on your TV, DVD player, fan, etc. TOTAL DARKNESS!

Ah, and here goes the capitalistic speak - the beautiful amorality of this totally effed up system. I am fully aware of how business owners try to "minimize costs." They do this in totally egregious ways, and then use this type of language to justify their actions, and then we have folks like you who defend it, and…

At an office party at my old job ("staff appreciation day," no less) one of the higher-ups arranged for a performance by a vocal group that several of the secretaries had formed. He introduced them by regaling the audience with a hi-la-rious story of how, when he approached them about performing at the event, they…

As my late grandmother said "the rich are rich because they don't spend their money". Oprah proves her right.

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.