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They Say: Having a Daughter Makes You a Liberal

JeanneSager — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:02:00 GMT

So blue might be the color most associated with boys. Turns out the blue states can thank their azure hues to the parents of little girls.

A conglomeration of studies about to be printed in a social science journal posit that parents' political leanings can be tied to the gender of their children. Notably, they say fathers of girls are more liberal.

Is that the same as saying they're more feminist?

Among the data social scientists looked at was the voting records of U.S. Congressmen. The first study (published in 2004) determined Congressman with daughters were more likely to vote liberally on reproductive rights issues. Four years later, the same researcher concluded the Congressmen with female offspring were voting liberally on a host of issues, including tax-free education and working families flexibility.

Integrating studies from Great Britain, the scientists have concluded parents with girls are more likely to sympathize with left wing ideals, while studies indicate that having a male child will lead to more right wing politics.

Interesting, because if you listened tp appeals to George W. Bush on particularly feminist issues, you'd often hear references to his daughters. As in "What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?" And I don't remember him coming out as a champion of Roe v. Wade, do you?

I'll allow that parents are more likely to weigh issues they wouldn't have otherwise focused on when faced with parenting a child of the opposite sex. A father with a daughter is more likely to have his daughter in mind when debating the rights of a woman over the rights of a fetus (although I'd wager there are a fair amount of dads who would still come down on the side of the fetus because they now equate their child with that fetus).

Even more interesting, the study suggests parents who lean to the left are more likely to stop having kids after the birth of a son - pointing to an added valuation of boys in the liberal community. Right wingers, they say, are more likely to stop making babies after a girl is born. Maybe it's all those liberal awakenings scaring them out of the bedroom?

Image: Flatrock

Via fivethirtyeight

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Judge Pardons Father Who Hired Prostitute for Son

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:30:00 GMT

A 42-year-old father has been let off the hook for attempting to give his son a morally reprehensible birthday gift.

Having decided it was time for his 14-year-old son to lose his virginity, the British resident drove the boy into the red-light district and told him to pick a prostitute. Fortunately, the son accidentally picked an undercover cop, who arrested his father.

Unfortunately, the case was assigned to a judge who apparently has a screw lose. The delinquent father was handed a 10-month prison sentence, suspended for a year. His son will go on living with him. There will be no other repercussions, such as, oh I don’t know, perhaps an occasional visit by child protective services?

According to the Times, “Judge Jonathan Teare said he would spare the father a jail sentence because of his excellent character and that he believed he did not mean any harm to his son.” This reasoning is so disturbing that I can only hope Judge Teare was paid off.

Teaching his son that paying to lose his virginity is an acceptable form of sexual relations harms not only the son, but every future romantic relationship the son may engage in. The boy is only 14! Maybe he’s gay. Maybe he has an intuitive understanding—certainly not imparted to him by his father—that a fulfilling love life will never result from treating women like objects.

It is a parent’s role to teach the basic components of healthy sexual behavior to their kids. Boys in particular need to be taught to respect their sexual partners, since a 14-year-old girl is often not able to advocate for herself in the bedroom. However awkward such a conversation may seem, it’s necessary to build the foundation for healthy romantic relationships throughout a person’s life.

Photo: The Inquistr

10 Things I Learned about Poop from My Son

Cole Gamble — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Poop does not abide by the laws of gravity

I heard screaming from downstairs, my daughter wailing, “Daddy come look at this!” Sounded like the typical 50-times-a-day emergency drill. When I arrived downstairs I saw nothing out of the ordinary. “What is it,” I asked. “Dalton’s poop!” she replied. I searched the room. “Where?” She pointed up. Hanging from the ceiling was a perfect orb of poop, the exact size of a baseball. For a moment I had to just stare at it wondrously. Whatever feat got it up there, it was clearly the work of a master. Impressed, I applauded, then cried.

Poop likes to be talked too

Whenever I change Dalton’s diaper, Dalton’s makes sure to greet it (“Hi Poop!”) and bid it adieu when it goes in the trash (“Bye Poop!”)

Poop wants to be free – the last place poop wants to be is in a diaper

Smashed into the rug, on the bottoms of shoes, on the wall, next to the toilet (“so close, buddy”)…

The less access you have to diapers and wipes, the more volumous and offensive the poop will be.

You will find things in poop that don’t occur in nature

If I had a dime for every time I uttered, “Have you ever seen this color before in your life” I’d enough dimes to…forget it. I don’t want your poop dimes.

Black birthday cake frosting makes poop green

Brown carpeting seems like a great idea for hiding stains…until you consider the stains you want to find.

Your dog and child will work together to spread the joy.

Boy takes off poopy diaper. Border Collie immediately shreds into poop confetti for spreading over the entire basement.

Zoo's clearly feed their animals a better diet than you do your kid, because what comes out of your kid's rear smells worse than elephant poop.

The day the poop goes in the toilet is a glorious one…followed by another 6 months of poop everywhere else.

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Husband Loses Job, Wife Loses Respect For Him

Brett Singer — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT

We all know how tough it is out there. The number of jobs is shrinking by the day, and layoffs are common. Many families still follow the traditional model where the husband is the breadwinner and the wife takes care of the children and housekeeping duties. Nothing wrong with that. But let's say dad loses his job. He didn't quit because he missed out on a promotion, nor was he fired for making photocopies of his butt. He was laid off. It happens. Mom should be supportive, right? Flexible. Do what needs to be done to keep the family together.

Well, yes. Of course. But in the case of this couple that was profiled on ABC's Good Morning America, wifey has lost respect for her fella. She's not attracted to him anymore. In fact, they are sleeping in separate beds.

The wife in question, Eleanor Hemmert, had this to say about her husband Rick: "It's the respect. I wish I could say something different, but I've lost so much respect for him. And I think the dynamics with a man and a woman is a woman has to respect her husband. And if she doesn't, that relationship just goes away."

In an illustration of what I meant when I questioned a passage from Kate Gosselin's book, Eleanor also said: "That's one of the basic things that little girls grow up thinking - that the man is going to put the roof over her head, he is going to support the family." And when it doesn't happen, you get angry. Expectations can be bad when the person is inflexible.

I'm not in their marriage, so I don't know what else is going on. But this couple chose to put themselves on TV, so I'm commenting. Anytime I hear a woman complain that her husband isn't doing the manly work that she expects her man to be doing, it really irks me. If a woman were told to stay home and get pregnant, and that her place was in the kitchen, preferably barefoot, would she like that? Or that it was perfectly reasonable to pay her less money than a man who does the same job? Granted, those things happen all the time. But they're wrong. So is this woman's attitude.

Of course, Husband Rick isn't helping matters. "I think it is in every man's DNA to be the breadwinner. It's very humbling for me. It changes the dynamic of our relationship immensely. There is a wedge that has appeared. I feel the anger. I feel the tension. This house is not as joyous as it should be."

See, that's a choice. It's not in any man's "DNA" that he has "to be the breadwinner." It's in his mind, and the mind of his wife. Sometimes things change. Is it unpleasant? Sure. Is it worth ruining your marriage for? No way.

I understand that it's probably very frustrating for any couple when the primary breadwinner loses their job. But it's not like Mr. Man decided to quit being a salesman in order to pursue his dream of being a rodeo clown. Wife Eleanor is also complaining that she has to work more hours now, and that Rick cooks dinner poorly. But is that really fair? If he's just sitting around the house all day with his feet up, I can see being annoyed about that. But that's different from being so furious about something that was outside of you and your husband's control that you can't even sleep in the same room anymore.

Their daughter Elizabeth is "picking up" the tension between mom and dad. While both husband and wife are angry at each other and feel "underappreciated", their daughter is "suffering silently," says ABC News. "If the kids sense that you are unhappy and you don't talk to them about it, they may incorrectly blame themselves," they say. Good advice. Maybe the Hemmerts will take it.

Source: ABC News

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How to Find a Job in This Economy: Let Your Kid on YouTube

JeanneSager — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:47:00 GMT

Things were looking bleak for the former vice president of marketing at the Tampa Bay Lightning - until his son got involved.

Mark Gullett lost his job the Florida hockey team on Thursday. That night, his fourteen-year-old posted a heartrending video on YouTube and job offers started pouring in.

By this weekend, "Mark By Ben" had already been seen by more than thirty six hundred people, and dad Mark has a few promising leads to keep the family alive. I'll let the video speak for itself, which it does in an understated way. There's no speaking - just Ben Gullett, fourteen, holding cue cards for you to read off the story of his father's life. He bought his kid a drum set. He makes 'smores. He has a Stanley Cup ring.

Oh yeah, and thanks to "restructuring," he doesn't have a job. The younger Gullett shares all the reasons his father will make a good employee again some day, but his best quality? "Most importantly, he is my dad," Ben spells out in a series of cards.

The whole thing was Ben's idea - although he did ask his father for help and checked in to make sure it was OK to broadcast his story across the world wide web. The teen says he wanted to do it to show his dad he loved him, and his dad was sufficiently touched. I don't see how anyone watching WOULDN'T be touched. This is one of those stories that reminds you the bad economy may hurt families, but it doesn't break them.

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JeanneSager — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:01:00 GMT

Did your daughter ever inform you when she grows up she's going to marry her Daddy?

It turns out she probably will - or at the very least his doppelganger. Your son, by the way? He might well grow up to marry a woman is a heckuva lot like his Mom.

Recent research and surveys have come up with the same answers - an overwhelming number of people grow up and fall in love with someone who shares either facial characteristics or personalities with one of their parents. Some researchers say it has to do with familiarity, others because they are following set patterns in their lives (ie. a girl with a missing dad might marry an emotionally unavailable man).

Let's face it, kids inherit traits from their parents. So it only stands to reason that the traits they inherited from one parent would be the same kinds of traits that drew that particular parent to the other. If a girl is more like her mother, for example, wouldn't it make sense that she'd be attracted to a guy like her father?

Is one of your kids more like you? Do they have the kind of personality that would mesh with their other parent better? Who is your little one going to grow up to marry?

Image: Sydney Morning Herald

Some Good News in Cross-Continental Custody Battle

JeanneSager — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:32:00 GMT

Remember David Goldman, the Jersey dad whose wife up and moved to Brazil, cutting him off without a chance to see their four-year-old son? The story got us all ferklempt, not to mention righteously indignant on Dad's behalf when it came to light on the Today Show last fall.

Put down your pitchforks parents! Four years after his wife took off, divorced him, remarried and died, Goldman finally got to see his son this week.

It's a two tissue box tale if there ever was one. Goldman bid son Sean and wife Bruna goodbye at Newark International Airport in June 2004. He thought they were simply going to visit Bruna's family in her native Brazil, and they'd be home in due time.

Then he got word from Bruna that she wasn't coming back. Oh, and by the way, she wanted a divorce. Court battles ensued, but Goldman couldn't get past the Brazilian roadblocks, and his wife had remarried a "well-connected" Brazilian attorney who was helping her every step of the way. Then came word that Bruna had died during childbirth in August 2008. David Goldman thought he finally had a chance at his son; only to hear that the attorney was filing for a name change to take Goldman's off of Sean's birth certificate.

When the story became public, politicians from the U.S. stepped in to help. New Jersey Congressman U.S. Rep. Christopher Smith, traveled to Brazil this week with Goldman, securing visitation for father and son while he put pressure on the Brazilian government, warning them that they are violating the Hague Convention, an international adoption treaty.

It's not over yet, but can you imagine having been the fly on the wall for that meeting between father and son? We'd be talking a three-tissue-box story then.

Now Goldman's supporters are looking for letters to be sent to Congressmen who will help co-sponsor a bill - along with Smith - to call for Brazil to conform under the Hague Convention rules and send Sean (and American citizen) home with his father to the states. Get a look at the bill and a list of congressmen here.

Image: Bring Sean Home.org

MySpace Mom Finds Long Lost Son

Cole Gamble — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT

I know there are a few people out there who are still holds outs on MySpace and Facebook. I know, because I was one of them. “Why do I want to find people from my past?” I’d think. This story is an example of exactly why you would.

And the whole thing happened because of a crazy coincidence in typos.

Thirty Two years ago Terri Fuller gave up her two year old son, Rustin Hawver, because she "was young and just barely surviving.” For decades Fuller searched for the son she so painful had to part. Recently, she set up a MySpace page announcing her search for the boy, now a man. However, Fuller put a typo in his name, leaving the “w” out. It just so happened that Rustin made the exact same typo when searching for his own blog and came upon Fuller’s MySpace page.

"Hi, I'm Rustin Hawver, H-A-W-V-E-R," he wrote to her. "I think I'm the one you're looking for that you want to meet. Please let me know if I'm wrong,” he wrote. He wasn’t wrong.

The reunited mother and son plan to meet later in March. "If it wasn't for Google or that keyboard being messed up, I would have never have found [her]," Hawver said.

So maybe web 2.0 isn’t such a bad thing after all.

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No Worker's Comp For Son of Woman Murdered

Kelly Mills — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:33:00 GMT

Taneka Talley was stabbed to death at her job---she was a clerk at the Dollar Store in Fairfield, California. Now the company is denying worker's compensation benefits to her surviving eleven-year-old son. The boy's grandmother, who won custody, is fighting the case, and her lawyer says, "They're saying (the killing) didn't arise out of her employment, except that in this case she wouldn't have been killed if she hadn't been at work. This person didn't know her, just walked into the store and picked her out."

See, the murder was motivated by racism. The man who is going to stand trial for killing her allegedly decided he wanted to kill a black person, and Talley was the first person he saw. He walked into the store where Talley was stocking shelves, stabbed her, and fled.

Worker's compensation benefits don't cover injuries or deaths that have a "personal" motive, such as a spouse attacking someone at work. The company is arguing that in this case, Talley's murder was personally motivated, even though she did not know her attacker, and therefore her son should be ineligible to receive $250,000 in death benefits. Personally I think that it's a crappy case to make, and in drawing this line, they obviously harm her young son, the one she was working to support. Heartless.

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Mom Carries Teen Son's Urn Into Court to Prove He's Really Dead

JeanneSager — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:57:00 GMT

As if Julie Strange hasn't had enough heartache. The British mother lost her teenaged son, Paul, when he was hit by a train near his job at a bakery on Oc. 16, 2006. Then she started getting the letters.

The government said Paul had sold a vehicle and not properly reported it. They wanted their money. But Paul Strange didn't have a vehicle while he was alive, and he certainly hasn't bought or sold one since October 2006. Each time a letter came, Julie Strange called the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and explained her story. She even sent a copy of his death certificate.

Then baliffs came knocking on her door with an order for Paul to appear in court. So he did - in a small wooden box carried by his mother, a brass plaque on the top that read "Paul Richard Strange Died 16th October 2006 Aged 19 Years." The court and the DVLA issued immediate apologies, and the mother of two (still living) children is grateful the flow of letters across her doorstep will finally stop.

Government ineptitude is something we've all come to expect, but sometimes they need to step back and realize - a mother knows best. Watch an interview with Julie Strange here.

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Mom and son barbecue grandma's remains

Brett Singer — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:30:00 GMT

A 50-year-old woman and her 30-year-old son in Corning, California have been accused of barbecuing the remains of Ramona Allmond, their 84 year old mother/grandmother. The creepy, kooky and altogether ooky pair also allegedly cashed her social security and retirement checks after she died. More specifically, after they CREMATED HER ON A BARBECUE.

Although the cause of Ramona Yolanda Allmond's death may never be known, her daughter and grandson allegedly allowed her body to lie on the bedroom floor for a week until moving it to a concrete culvert behind their residence, Hosler said.
The culvert had been used by the family as a makeshift barbecue, he said, noting that the family had used it to cook their Thanksgiving turkey several weeks before Allmond's death.
It's not known if they used it after the alleged cremation.

EWWW!!!!

But, as game show hosts used to say, that's not all. The mother, Kathleen Allmond, "made a necklace with a portion of her mother's skull, which she wore around her neck…[and] posted a photograph of herself wearing the necklace on her MySpace page."

In the understatement of the century, the Captain Paul Hosler of the Tehama County Sherriff's Department said, "It gets really weird when you have a piece of mom's skull hanging around your neck." Yes, Captain. Yes it does.

I have to point out that at least the son, Tony Ray, looks the part. Maybe his defense strategy could be, "Dude! I was just trying to get Rob Zombie to put me in his band…" I also think that the markings on his forehead make him look like a Klingon. (I'm assuming they are markings or a tatto, but I suppose it's possible that he really is a Klingon. Unlikely, but possible.)

This wins my award for yuckiest story of the year. Maybe the decade. Well, there's still time left. But if the vote were held today…

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editors — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:06:00 GMT

The Babble editors are completely addicted to Project Runway. When the "licious" guy was voted off, the next morning we made extra-strong coffee and toasted his demise. So we were pretty excited when writer Lisa Estall sent us a few answers she got out of our hero, Nina Garcia.

Garcia left Elle in August to become fashion director at Marie Claire. She lives in New York with her husband and reasonably named one-year-old son, Lucas Alexander Conrod. Her new book, published by Harper Collins, is called, The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own. And here's what she told Lisa by email . . .

How do you juggle career and parenting?
Well that’s easy. He comes first. When I walk in the door and I see him, it’s like, “Okay, heels off. Converse on. Let’s play.”

When you first started being filmed on Project Runway, were you nervous being in front of the camera?
I wasn’t nervous about being in front of the camera, but I was nervous about seeing myself on camera. My husband makes me watch the show. I cringe the whole time.

What designer labels does your son wear?
The designer labels he wears are all gifts. I have some very fashionable and generous friends who have sent him Chrome Hearts Tees, Burberry pants, etc. But, me? I buy him the inexpensive stuff. I see how careless he is with his clothes, and he’ll outgrow them in two weeks. Every mom out there knows that there is nothing better than being practical.

Who are your fave designers?
I have so many favorite designers. The list would be too long. So I’ll just give you a few of the new names that I have my eye on right now: Alexandra Wang, Philip Lim, Peter Som, and Chris Benz. There are so many great emerging talents right now. The future looks quite divine, from a fashion point of view.

You can buy her book here.

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Boy Injured Car Surfing on Mom's Ford

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:54:00 GMT

This is one of those awful stories in which parents did something so reckless that you want to mercilessly berate them--but you can't because they have already learned their lesson the very hard way.

In this case, a Utah mother discovered that car surfing is not the best way to bond with your kids. The mother of a 8-year-old and a 10-year-old son routinely let her kids take a ride on the outside of her Ford Expedition while she drove around the block at about 5 mph. The kids would stand on the running board, and hold onto the sideview mirror and the handles inside the car.

This was all fun and games until her son took a fall as she went over a speed bump. He had to be flown to a hospital, where he was treated for critical head injuries. He is now in stable condition. His mother has been charged with child abuse.

As horrible as this accident was, it could have been much worse. A report from 2000 found that nearly 500 people were killed car surfing over a five-year period.

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Brett Singer — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:00:00 GMT

We're OK with that, by the way. But he kinda is, as this video shows.

Some background: Vince Young is an NFL quarterback. Following an amazing performance in the 2006 Rose Bowl, Young was selected 3rd overall in the NFL draft by the Tennessee Titans. Although he has won a fair amount of games, his playing has been criticized by football pundits and fans. Last week he was injured during the game and will be out for 2-4 weeks. Last Monday, he left his house and didn't take his cell phone with him, prompting worrying from his couch and others. In the past few days, there were various stories out there, including one that he may have been contemplating suicide. (It appears that this isn't true, but it's not entirely clear.) His mother said that he was tired of the criticism that goes with being a highly-paid NFL player; that's what he's referring to in this video.

What he says is that even when it's your money and your house, you still have to tell your mom where you're going. Hey, nothing wrong with that I guess.

Here's two videos: the first is the one where he says he needs to listen to his mom and the other is about the possibility that he may have been thinking about suicide. Or maybe not.

Vince Young: tell your momma where you're going

Therapist said Vince mentioned suicide (why is she telling this to reporters?)

image: Wikipedia