Seriously, things get way better after 50.

I am sorry you are so wrong about milk. I hope you are taking that LadyCoffeeSoul black!

You anti-milkites are a scourge. I shake my plump, milk-fed fist at you!!!

Oh. He did. I'm ashamed to know this.

That's probably the way he treated the "heathens" in Nepal.

I know it's all a pain in the ass, but I totally understand where they are coming from. Love for our kids unhinges us.

We were very protective. We had few rules, but the ones we had were all safety and health related. But when my daughter told me at 24 that she had never smoked dope, I didn't believe her. But she was deadly serious.

No rules? Insane. But we had very few. We gradually let up on curfew as time went on. At 17, we discussed our daughter's curfew and she said, "Mom and Dad, nothing good happens in this town after midnight." So we left it there. Her boyfriend's parents were grateful. It meant an early night for him.

The pill used to help me a bit. No one here seems to mention it. Doesn't it help anymore?

Good news: depending on how far along in your 30s you are, clearer skin is around the corner. I was to tired by cystic acne for 20 + years. Then, I became peri menopausal. Poof! Zit free now for 12 years.

If you don't want kids, great. But by your own reckoning, only the affluent should have kids. You admit that you aren't badly off, but would be "poor" if you had a child or two. By extension, you must think only the well off should have kids.

Terrible. It's a terrible overrated pile of crap. Seriously.

No. Not quite that illustrious.

But there's a lot of that attitude here, about the "irresponsible poor." True, people on Jez support family planning, and I do as well. I think all birth control and abortion should be free. But underneath many comments here is a fear that the icky poor are having babies.

My daughter works at a very big corporation whose name you would recognize. She is high on the corporation. There are vp's with tats and very interesting hair choices. I've seen the pictures. No, it's not banking, but it's a multi billion dollar corporation with very highly educated, highly paid people running it.…

Wild cuts and colors are super common in even the most boring small Midwestern towns. I know. I live in one.

I love her hair and I'm a middle aged college professor with a great career.

She looks like she's doing some potty reading.

Shall we start with the cruelty of colonialism? How about the way native people were treated in Canada? Here's a slavery abolition timeline.

No. It isn't that kind of question.