Ha! My husband gets all sappy about this song, because his dad worked a lot, and didn't have a lot of time to spend with him growing up. I grew up in the inner city, where half of the kids didn't even have dads. Many of them ended up getting involved with gangs, and are now dead and/or in prison. I don't give a fuck…

This is so true. I share custody with my son’s dad (side note: he is a really great dad, this is not in any way a complaint about him), and people are always so impressed with him for sharing custody and actually wanting to spend time with his child. Meanwhile, no one has ever suggested I’m a good mom for sharing…

I know some people use their children to work out unfinished business when relationships end. But I also know a couple of dads who live in the same town as their children and don’t see them once a month.

And this is considered biological truth. I can’t with the culture warriors who act like their evangelical, white collar, suburban setup was the setting my own grandmother raised her children in. (She helped farm tobacco with her husband; She taught school in a one-room schoolhouse; she ran a household and had five…

When I started junior high, my new best friend, unlike my elementary school friends, had a stay-at-home mom. I made the mistake of bitching to my mom that she, unlike Maria’s mom, was never home until dinnertime and I had to sit in an empty house and... So Mom took a week off and met me at the door with cookies every…

I love my kid, and I am so glad I am a mom, but having a kid can re-set your identity in ways that is really never discussed. Everything I accomplished before and after I had a kid seems not to matter. Despite my ambition, drive, talent, and determination, choosing to raise my kid hurt me in ways from which I’m not…

I think “mostly mothers” is being very generous. If a father changes a diaper and vacuums once or twice a week he’s a god among men, deserving of limitless praise and blowjobs, and if a mother ever makes even a slightly bad judgment call, she’s Mommie fucking Dearest. The problem isn’t the expectations parents are…

Also, Cat’s in the Cradle is just a flat-out garbage song. Play catch with the other kids you weirdo.

And this right here is what pisses me the fuck off about our parenting culture in America. Parents (well, mostly mothers) are expected to be able to fill every single need for their children single-handedly. A parent is expected to be a caretaker, teacher, cook, laundress, cleaner, food source, and crafter-in-chief.…

I am being fair and I also don’t need to be fair. This person you’re defending is one of the most powerful people on the planet earth, she experiences no oppression, and has the funds and the influence to totally insulate her from it should it arise.

I find her communication skills amazing, yes, she is professorial, but never condescending, and has a gift for explaining very complicated things so that they can be understood. I did not know she is a bad campaigner. I like her for the policies she supports, her substance, and I loathe Hillary for her substance, her…

The Clintons have a lot of power in the Democratic "establishment" and were more successful in "clearing the decks" for Hillary this year than in 2008, and I think that was enough to keep Warren out, plus too, maybe the promise of something like SEC chairperson? My point about her difficulties with Bernie, because of…

She lost the nomination in 08 to a black man. That’s historic. And she had a really really really tough fight to defeat a jewish socialist. And this despite that both times it was her turn, it was inevitable, and she was the "establishment candidate." Even with training wheels and being pushed and shoved up through…

You can address it, but address it in a way that isn’t sexist. The criticisms launched by Hume and Sullivan both fell into the trap of criticizing her for things that, if they were coming from someone with the bass provided by having an adam’s apple and more testosterone, would have been considered perfectly fine.

Can Karen Walker be our President? #JustJackVP

Yes to all you said. My husband and I are happily child-free and are also environmental anti-natalist. If I got pregnant I would abort as soon as possible, even though I am financially comfortable and could raise children I wanted.

Like me. I am financially secure but I don’t particularly like children or babies (they are cute in pictures though). My husband and I are environmental anti-natalists and there’s no way I would put my body through the complex and often dangerous process of carrying a pregnancy to term. Fortunately, I can afford to…

Some, like me, don’t want to ever carry a pregnancy to term and go through the hormonal roller coaster (my family has a history of pregnancy and post-partum depression and psychosis) or the process of labour, add that to the fact that I don’t particularly like kids or taking care of babies (though some are cute in…

They are very clearly advocating for a change to the Democratic platform. That’s not a hidden agenda, it’s right here in the article. They want to amend it to make it less pro-choice, and consequently more harmful to women. We can commend them for their efforts to reduce the need for abortions without ignoring their…

Pull out method worked for me for 17 years until husband had vasectomy recently. Just putting it out there that it can work extremely well.