@TheFormerJuneBronson: Really. So much for TGIF.

@istealllamas: Or "A Franklin Kwanzaa."

@AllieCaulfield: Agreed. Blood may be thicker than water, but it also clots. And friends are the family you get to pick!

These are the days I just don't get capitalizism. My hairdresser is the bomb-diggity, and she could have given Kate that whole look for around $80 - wash, cut, color, and blow-out. AND it would have looked like spun silk.

@vamusical: Nah. It's just yet another sign of awfulness.

@miss_so_unknown: So good to know I'm a cool as you!

@Mrs. Stephen Fry: My mom likes it, too, if it makes you feel any better.

@obsidian05: I'm an asshole, too. Would you like some fried clams?

Is it just me, or does Scarlet REALLY look like Michelle Pfeiffer in that pic?

@Triana Orpheus: You're more optimistic than I am. I keep thinking of my sister-in-law who has 10 kids and another on the way and lives in a 3 bed-room bungalow. Alas, she doesn't have $68 mil. Maybe she didn't need to have 11 kids, but that's not the point. Actually, I don't know what my point is.

@cool_as_KimDeal: I was really fortunate to have a mom, aunt, and their friends who told me exactly that. Still am fortunate for that. To quote my mom's best friend, when I was crying about something high school-related awful, "If I had genie that gave me chance to live my life all over again but told me I had to…

@Morning Gloria: Awwwww!

I know it's been done to death, but

@PennyFarthing: I know mine is.

@rah29: Although this is not conclusive, this particular study does cite that children of unplanned pregnancies are at higher risk of abuse: [findarticles.com]

@Roots500: Yes. That's where I was trying to go. I over-generalized.

@SeriesofTubes: "The real significance of this study is that lesbian families don't seem to be any worse than average. This helps rebut the homophobes who say that lesbians shouldn't be allowed to raise children because two-mom homes are somehow inherently more dangerous."

@greeneyedfem (MzJ+SG deserve stars): Yes, please excuse my over-generalization. I did read your posts, and I appreciate it. I might as well have said no planned pregnancies ever have instances of abuse, which would also be over-optimistic to say the least.

I'm with many of the others posting on this that this study is flawed. However, for the "well, duh" file, I would imagine studies have been done that show that planned pregnancies have a lower rate abuse than unplanned pregnancies. Considering same-sex couples HAVE to plan their pregnancies in one way or another, it…

@thequeenofstartingover: Seconded - all of it. To see her and Prince on the same stage would put me into raptures of glee. One of my friends that lives in NYC is going, and I'll have to live vicariously through her - and hope he adds a Detroit date.