THANK YOU! I don’t see much, if any, historical precedent that would convince me that children are better off being raised by people who do not feel any close parental bonds with them. These kinds of situations are ripe for abuse. 

I’d like to point out that at least two notorious religious cults* with serious child molestation/abuse problems routinely practiced “abolishing the nuclear family” by doing all kinds of fucked up shit to keep kids from being able to bond with their parents, often under the guise of “raising children communally”.

Agreed, but also wanted to give you props for a great avatar and screenname (obviously I’m a little biased).

My autistic son is smarter than a lot of these people.

It’s absolutely amazing to me that living in a world where there has never been greater access to knowledge and scientific research is making so many people even more stupid and less educated than they would be without that access.

Varric is taken. He will never cheat on Bianca.

Tell me more about these countries with 6 hour, 4 day work weeks...

like the sex scene between the Inquisitor and Sera,

Don’t worry: There are no Blackwall fans.

Lady Josephine Cherette Montilyet, the beautiful Disney princess that she is, is entirely dateable, just as a note.

It seems like literally all of the focus when it comes to the question of working moms is on those with the highest level careers and I’ll getting sick of it. I have to work. Full stop, no question, otherwise the bills wont get paid. But I don’t give a shit about my career and when I was pregnant I desperately…

I don’t know. Because the characters have such distinct personalities. In Origins you could just click through Morrigan’s dialogue options to have sex with her but to get a relationship with Leiliana you had to put in the work and get your friendship meter super high. Some of the characters in Inquisition feel the…

We absolutely need to focus on doing something with school calendars, especially on the elementary level where kids need someone home to get them off the bus. I had no idea how much more difficult my life would be as a working mom when my kids started kindergarten - between random breaks, conference days, and weather…

My husband is all but begging me to have a kid, but quite apart from me having zero desire to do so (and having been crystal clear about that since literally our first date), I have no idea how we would find the time or money. We’re both underemployed lawyers and our combined debt from school is approaching $500,000.…

I wrote a post about sharing a picture of Dorian’s ass and Xbox banned me from posting screenshots yet there were tits from this game all over the place.  That said I feel Dorian was a fantastically written character and was glad I made a male character to experience him fully.

English and Welsh (Scotland has differently timed breaks and I don’t know about NI) schools have 5-6 weeks in summer. 2 weeks at xmas and 2 weeks at easter. Then there are half terms- each a week and there are three- Oct, Feb and May. A school year has 39weeks.

Where are the men in raising children in this article. Speaking to the demographic written about in these two opinion pieces, heterosexual women, why is no one talking about how it is still expected that the mother would stay at home or do all of the labor involved with raising and taking care of children? Considering…

If we would just give federal mandated maternity/paternity leave of at least 3 months as well as getting some real wage growth, then motherhood wouldn’t be putting so much strain on us.

I like what you’re saying but it seems there is no solution. Not because men and women can’t be equal, but that no solution fits all and the competitive nature of business is not compatible with the family.

I’m in a place career-wise where I’m deeply unsatisfied with my job, despite a solid reputation, good standing in the company, seniority, and a nice salary. I tend to be the person in the family who does the majority of the house work and childcare and while I do not want to be a stay at home mom (bless those of you…