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My plans with friend are spoiled when she’s handed her grandkids without warning
I have a serious issue with my best girlfriend. We make plans together, adult plans, and then at the last minute, her kids drop the young grandkids off for her to babysit, curtailing any plans we have together. The past few times, we have changed our plans to a “kids” activity.
I have an extremely busy client load, and I’m losing income by accommodating my friend’s time constraints, which revolve around making her husband’s lunch and dinner. Although I’m single now (I am a widow), I do understand why she has her priorities. If her grandkids are there when we have plans, she asks me to pick them up fast food on the way over — on my dime.
I have kids and grandkids myself, and they are important to me. I’m tired of being held hostage by her adult children who I feel are using her and taking advantage of the “drop-in day care” with Nana. How can I talk to her about our time being important, too? I have intentionally NOT made plans with my grandkids if she and I have plans, and I would love some reciprocity. — THROWN UNDER THE BUS
My plans with friend are spoiled when she’s handed her grandkids without warning
Dad speaks out after winning grandparents' visitation rights case
Man calmly walks up to 6-year-old and snatches him up right in front of the boy's grandma, then strolls away
We Can Raise Boys To Become Good Men By Treating Them Like Girls
When I was a kid in the 1970s, the “tomboy” was queen — or maybe king. Even a non-sporty girl like me was dressed in the unisex uniforms of white-piped track shorts, Keds, and t-shirts, just like my brother. The lesson I learned from my parents, peers, the media, and the passage of Title IX in 1972, was that I had legal right to everything culturally marked as “for boys.”
But the same access to girls’ worlds has still not been granted to boys. Despite the recent media focus on toxic masculinity, boys still feel insistent pressure to be violent, to shut down emotions, to watch porn, and to have sex even when they don’t want or aren’t ready to. They feel pressure to reject anything associated with what’s culturally marked as “feminine” — kindness, vulnerability, love, seeking help, let alone dolls and the color pink — and pressure to look down on girls and women. Boys learn that “girly” is an insult, and they must at all costs distance themselves from it.
We Can Raise Boys To Become Good Men By Treating Them Like Girls
Do Women Really Want Their Men “A Little Fruity?”
California lawmaker on the harms of gender transition
The left fueled the male crisis. Now it's shocked.
Man Praised for Telling Grieving Parents They 'Made' Him Get Vasectomy
For a while, life was good. He got married, had a couple of dogs and lived in a modest house. But the sudden death of his brother on his honeymoon left his parents "devastated" for more reasons than one.
"My mom said that when we had kids I should name one after my brother," the man said. "I wasn't really thinking straight so I told the unvarnished truth. I had to choose between kids and paying off my student loans."
Man Praised
Why So Many People (Myself Included) Are Experiencing Family Estrangement
Jay-Z's 'son' makes heartbreaking plea
The Irony Behind Women Who Don't Want To Have Kids Is Actually Really Funny...
Dad's brutal admission that his 'blood starts to boil' any time he has to spend time with his kids sparks outrage
'The baby's skin is on his lips!'
Counsellor Suggests Gay Parents More Likely To Abuse Kids
Cheryl Parrott, a counsellor at Rich Relationships Counselling in Sydney, Australia, implied same-sex relationships could be unsafe for children, in comments made public on Tuesday.
“Research has shown that children are safest in their biological families. That the highest rate of child abuse is usually perpetrated by an adult not the biological parent of a child,” she wrote.
“In a same sex relationship one (if not both) of the adults will not be the biological parent of that child.”
Gay Parents More Likely To Abuse Kids
Lesbian couple tortured boy, 12, until he shrunk and died
Vile nickname lesbian used for foster boy, 12, who she and wife are accused of torturing to death
Gay Dads Can Be Toxic Too
N.J. LGBTQ+ group undergoing major review after exec is charged with hitting child
Sadistic lesbian foster moms made boy, 12, wear soaking wetsuit and joked 'Shiver, shiver dumb f**k' before his horrific death
Gay Dad Breaks Silence After Fierce Backlash Over Video “Mocking” Surrogate Baby
Gay dads speak out after viral fight video
Baby taken in by gay couple died after torture and sexual abuse, court told
Trans woman and her lover are accused of abducting her 10-year-old and taking the child to Cuba to have sex change surgery
Why I don't have a child: society isn't built for motherhood
I was 31 the last time I got pregnant. And after a lifetime of certainty that I did not want to be a mother, I felt an unexpected thing, cutting through the panic and the nausea: happiness.
Every morning since an intuitive nudge sent me to fetch a pregnancy test from the drugstore, my breasts oddly sore and my stomach in a low-level but constant state of turbulence, I would wake up with the thought: “I can do this. I want to do this.”
By the time I fell asleep at night, I was sure there was no possible way I could do this, this being raising a child on my own.
There has been a lot of hand-wringing about declining birth rates, the lowest in more than 30 years, across all race and class divides. We’re told millennial women “choosing” not to have children will be bad for the economy, it will be bad for the ageing baby boomer population, it will be bad for the real estate market. According to Forbes, it’s bad for older women desperate for grandchildren. But are people actually deciding to delay families, or are they finding themselves in unstable situations where the addition of a child seems unworkable? The reasons given when op-ed writers bother to ask millennials – too much debt, not enough financial security, a romantic market that is as rocky as the job market – point more to the latter.
If everyone makes it into the world safely, things that used to be taken for granted are now scarce resources one might fight and compete for. Vitally important systems like decent childcare, education and healthcare has disappeared, leaving parents to choose between inadequate choices or sacrificing untold amounts of money, time and energy to compete the limited amount of something better.
Why I don't have a child
Mom’s Super Honest Post About Being a Stay-at-Home Parent Goes Viral
'Vile-Mouthed' Son Forced to Apologize After Harassing Supermarket Employees
My Neighbors Keep Sending Their Grandkid Over to Use Our Pool Uninvited
French man accused of molesting 305 Indonesian children
The New Film Exposing Hollywood’s Child-Abuse Epidemic
Drama queen! Hilarious moment girl cries and claims father's hair-brushing hurts - before he has even started
SoCal fertility doc ‘kidnapped’ couples’ embryos
My sister uses hippy-dippy ‘gentle parenting’
“During the first two days of their stay, her daughter drew on my walls with crayon,” said the disgruntled woman. “And her son pulled up flowers I had recently planted in my garden bed and threw a rock at my car parked in the driveway.”
“To top it all off,” she continued, “they both kept constantly pulling my golden retriever’s hair and hitting my dog in the face.”
My sister uses hippy-dippy ‘gentle parenting’
Toddler Calls Their House...
Parent proudly calls herself a ‘Venmo mom’
World-famous Navy SEAL turned fitness expert shares shocking video
...man who slapped boy with autism for damaging Mercedes-Benz emblem possibly avoiding jail time
Mom fails to feed 4-year-old daughter solid foods for 6 months
Nine-year-old's tattoo sparks controversy online
Blame bad parenting for LI fire chief’s viral outburst at a young girl
Tired mom shocked to learn her kids are banned from dentist’s office
Outrage over America's worst school where students fight, smoke weed and have sex in full view
...why some adult children don’t talk to their parents
Even though humans are biologically hard-wired to form strong attachments to our parents, in many cases, these relationships become estranged as the children age. A recent poll found that nearly 1 in 4 adults are estranged from their families.
...why some adult children don’t talk to their parents
Mom is arrested for handcuffing son to oil tank while she went to work
...this ‘gay black sheep’ should prioritize healing
Man who used 3-month-old to brush snow off car in viral TikTok video likely to face charges
Son bragged to 911 he felt ‘f—ing great’ after killing his dad
Man used oven mitt to protect himself while repeatedly stabbing 9-year-old daughter
29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery
A new report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labour, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude.
Grace Forrest, co-founder of the Walk Free anti-slavery organisation, said Friday that means one in every 130 women and girls is living in modern slavery today, more than the population of Australia.
"The reality is that there are more people living in slavery today than any other time in human history," she told a U.N. news conference.
Walk Free defines modern slavery "as the systematic removal of a person’s freedom, where one person is exploited by another for personal or financial gain," she said.
According to the report, titled "Stacked Odds," women account for 99% of all victims of forced sexual exploitation, 84% of all victims of forced marriage, and 58% of all victims of forced labour.
29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery
The shocking words father spewed in Arabic after 'trying to choke daughter in honor killing' at her American school
Outrage in Somalia after man says he married missing eight-year-old
Rifts growing in the Taliban over the ban on girls' schooling
...couple accused of holding teen captive, abusing her for 7 years before she escaped
Teen was fed 1 Pop-Tart per week, forced to sleep in bathtub by abusive couple
Inside Saudi Arabia's 'hellish' secret prisons for 'disobedient' women and girls
Mom who sold daughter, 6, so her eyes and skin could be cut out and used for ‘medicine’ gets life in prison
...pro wrestler boyfriend was holding her against her will
How a mob of boys raped 71 girls in night of depravity with 19 victims killed
Teen Girl Evicts Family...
“[Not the asshole] The family is taking advantage of your brother and keeps moving more people into the house he OWNS. I am assuming nobody pays rent. It is your brother’s right to evict them. Maybe your stepsister should take responsibility for herself and the unborn baby. I can’t believe these people wanted to put you in a shed.”
Teen Girl Evicts Family
Parents Arrested After Attempting To Grab Their Children
District Attorney is stabbed multiple times by his own DAUGHTER
12-Year-Girl Who Shot Dad and Pets Has Died
'Evil' teen bullies get taste of vigilante 'justice'
Teen convicted of massacring family...
Teen conspires with boyfriend to murder grandparents
10 Parenting Tips Our Parents Gave To Us That Aren’t True Anymore
Don’t Hug Them...
10 Parenting Tips
Gen Xers Are Having Complicated Feelings About Their Parents
Boy, 9, is found locked in outdoor dog kennel in freezing cold
Megachurch leader, grandparents charged with murder, torture of 11-year-old
He Was an Abomination
Don Lemon says a woman’s ‘prime’ ends around 40
Mom blamed newborn’s death on being ‘flung into a ball pit
Prosecutors outraged as grandma who starved 9-year-old to death, kept alarms on fridge, avoids prison
...mother who smothered her 3 young children to death while singing nursery rhymes
Mother has baby taken away and is ARRESTED after breastfeeding struggles
Which Country Is The Rapiest?
Whether you consider yourself a total top, “just a hole sir,” or have more fun in a vers-athon, we guarantee that there’s something for you out there. Though being a side is a newer concept for some, there are also plenty of people who identify in that category – no overexplaining required!
Countries With the Most Tops, Bottoms, Vers & Sides
UK was once ranked the most LGBTQ-friendly nation
Do You Live in One of the Country's Horniest Cities?
Perverted son kept his 83-year-old mother as a sex slave
'This is disgusting': Mum is accused of 'child neglect' by cruel parents after sharing an innocent snap of her toddler daughter's bedroom
A mother has lashed out at 'Karens' for accusing her of neglect after she shared a photograph of her daughter's newly decorated room on Facebook.
'This is disgusting'
Mom's sickening excuse for leaving her toddler without food for 43 hours
Mom allegedly FaceTimed friend after beating infant son
...newborn baby sold by mother so she could pay for COOKING COURSE
Foster Mom Accused Allegedly of Trading Girl For A Monkey
Police issue warning after several children reported missing on beach
Female migrant gang-raped five-year-old stepchild with youngster's dad
Man 'held captive for 20 years by wicked stepmother'
Suburban mom arrested after unspeakable act on 5th graders at school party
Outrageous moment 270-pound Ohio woman beats up tiny girl, 11,
Glennon Doyle thinks our kids suck. And it’s all our fault
New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle is unequivocal in her opinion on modern parenting.
In her new book Untamed, she describes how parents receive a ‘terrible memo’ from society as soon as our kids are born.
This memo says that our kids are our saviours and parenting them is akin to a religion. We must give them every opportunity possible and most importantly, we must never allow anything difficult to happen to them.
According to Glennon, not only does this disastrous memo make us parents feel exhausted, neurotic and guilty; but it is also the reason why our kids suck.
Ouch.
The reason our kids suck, she says, is because we no longer allow our children to learn how to lose, or to struggle, or to be rejected.
Doyle thinks our kids suck
Shocking video shows gang of bullies viciously beating boy
Fears over sick online club that manipulates boys to torture other children and animals
Dad shares why he didn't tell his 10-year-old daughter it was her birthday
Man says son was stabbed in the heart at Texas track meet, died in twin’s arms
Man pleads guilty to shooting, killing father and injuring mother
TV reporter horrified by 9-year-old boy’s ‘alarming’ comment to her
Florida man takes 8-inch chef’s knife out of package to repeatedly stab woman
‘Evil judge’ doxxed and threatened after reducing bond for track meet stabbing suspect
...pandemonium caught on video sparks angry anti-kid backlash
'I don't hate my son, I just hate being a mother'
'I hate myself for making the decision to have a child. It's so hard, I feel like I don't have any freedom since I'm a mother. I'm just waiting for him to sleep, because I'll finally be alone.'
'I don’t want to be around my child. I don’t want to play with her, hold her, or be in the same room as her. I get so anxious just being around her or counting down the hours until she gets out of daycare. I am in therapy and on medication but nothing seems to get better. Not sure what to do.'
'They love you sooo much and then the teenage years. After that, they think you're a pain in the ass and have no time for you. The teenage years are better than how they ignore you when they are in their 20s. Then, it's like you never existed. Unless they need you to babysit.'
'I don't hate my son, I just hate being a mother'
Son kills mom before jumping from building
Teen Suffocated 4-Year-Old Half-Sister to Death
Brad Pitt 'choked' one of his children
She may plead guilty to hosting sex parties for underage teens
Man beat stepdaughter to death
‘Missing’ Texas boy Rudy Farias trapped as ‘sex slave’
NYC child thieves keep targeting bars
Nicolas Cage’s son accused of beating his mom
I’m an NYC mom of one and kids aren’t worth it
11 brutally honest reasons millenials don't want kids
When it comes to embarking on the journey of parenthood, lots of millennials are saying, "Meh. No, thanks."
According to data from the Urban Institute, birth rates among 20-something women declined 15% between 2007 and 2012. Additional research from the Pew Research Center reflects a longer-term trend of women eschewing parenthood as the number of U.S. women who choose to forego motherhood altogether has doubled since 1970.
This trend is fascinating, in part because there's long been a taboo associated with people (particularly, women) choosing to opt out of parenthood. Women who choose not to have kids have been referred to as "shallow" and "self-absorbed," and even the pope has said the decision not to procreate is fundamentally "selfish."
In an effort to find out why so many young people are really deciding against parenthood, we solicited dozens of responses from our audience via Tumblr and Google Forms. The responses we received from people of all sexes and identities reveal that there are myriad reasons why people are opting out of parenthood — and all of them are equally valid.
11 brutally honest reasons...
'Kids were crying'
Autistic traits, behavioral problems in 7-year-olds linked with gender nonconforming play
‘Absolutely dumb’ argument over ‘parenting skills’ leaves one dead
Mom Accused Of Taping Her Mother To Chair For 24 Hours
Coach accused of offering $5,000 to buy children from parents
Italy makes it illegal to seek surrogacy abroad
Dad angry after losing video game fatally punched newborn
Mom Let Dad Kill Their Baby Over Fear of Abuse
7-year-old boy died on Christmas weighing only 7 pounds