Holy crap on a cracker, this is the biggest "missing the point completely" that I have seen in ages.

"You're terrible, Muriel!"

"Shockingly, they are not the most reliable people."

Get right out of town!

That certainly sounds awful. But it is not uncommon for serial killers to lie through their teeth about the number of people they killed. Shockingly, they are not the most reliable people.

I have to say, as a gay man, I'm uncomfortable with the whole "it's not a choice" rhetoric. It makes me feel like I have to justify myself to heterosexuals, have to explain why I am the way I am. What does it matter why I'm gay? Why is it less wrong if I didn't choose it?

Still...I'd rather watch UFC, lightweight preferably, especially the guys that wrestle around in the tiny spandex panties. Even my DVR gets a boner.

Then the OCD in you should get with the times.

I look at the pictures and then I go tango by myself.

In your direct responses to me you said that because I had a child I gave up for adoption then clearly I had poor impulse control. If you can make that judgement of me based on nothing but the fact that I had an unplanned pregnancy and completely ignoring the rest of my life before and after that event then sorry if…

Having parents with poor future time orientation and impulse control which normally leads to having a child that they cannot raise and thus leaves them for adoption means that their children will be the same.

I pointed out upthread that "prostitute" seemed to be the default explanation for the mothers of children given up for adoption in Korea, at least in the 60s and 70s. Which was just another word for poor or unmarried women who found themselves pregnant. I'm not saying that's the case with SoonYi, but with my sister…

Some of it is socially constructed too. A child who has been raised in an institution for several years has missed out on a lot of parent-child interaction and nurturing. Sometimes it's hard to catch up (and remember this was decades ago before a lot of the targeted therapeutic interventions that are available now.)

It may sound crazy but there ARE people with learning, emotional, AND moral disabilities. It's possible to be borderline retarded and manipulative.

A lot of adopted children will have behavior issues, whether you're rich or poor. The nine months you spend in womb can shape your life. If your bio mother is stressed, unhealthy, depressed, etc., it can cause you to have mental illness, addiction problems, etc. Mia also adopted a lot of children with disabilities.…

It has to be mentioned that Isaiah Farrow could not have been a crack-addicted infant unless someone gave that infant crack. Addictions can be passed from mother to child with some drugs, but crack (or cocaine in general) is not one of them.

Good heavens, why are you shouting the words "vaginal atrophy?" I understand that this sounds horrific to someone who is, perhaps, many years away from menopause, but all it means is that the tissues in the vaginal canal become dry and more fragile...it's not quite as if the whole thing shrinks up and goes away. How…

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The results would be either interesting or terrifying.

You know, I thought about what I just said, and I now don't think that your kid's level of embarrassment is a good barometer for how to dress. When I was a kid, my mother dressed incredibly dowdily. Somewhere in her mid-50's she developed a sense of style and now wears cute clothes, but for about 20 years there she…

That's only if a child has been taught that the way a woman dresses is about attention from men. If anything, dressing as you like and having open conversations with a kid about "wear what you want and what makes you comfortable" I think would be a great way to model independent decision-making.