Another thing you might do, similarly, is have "Joe first day" and "Tom first day" alternating. On Joe's day, he gets to be first for everything, and the next day Tom does. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This bridal party in tuxes, guests in khakis thing is a pet peeve of mine! Everyone should wear the same thing. And nobody should (in my particular obviously nonuniversal opinion) wear anything except coat and tie to any wedding unless requested. I would suggest that she choose between "coat and tie" or "shirt and khakis," depending on her preference. It's customary to specify what men will wear as it's simple, and women extrapolate from that what they should wear. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My kid is very much like that (3.5 yr old) and has had a professional evaluation and the conclusion is no diagnosis, just a tough personality. Just throwing that in. He will often try to make family members undo or redo things to get them the way that he envisioned. No type of punishment is effective for him either. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I loved the first five minutes... all downhill from there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Prayers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think there's a big difference between secrets about my life and confidentiality about someone else's, like Ellen said. I hope this very open wife never wants a career in health, law, education... anything involving people or private information. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thinking about it more, I was also surprised by the part about how many boys learn best in a competitive environment, while girls tend to prefer a cooperative one. (Of course neither the author nor I think this is universally true.) Was the part about the boyish girls and the girlish boys in that book, or his other book about gender and children? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I read it a couple years ago. I remember mostly liking it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok, maybe this is silly. At the end of the season, you could give him cut out construction paper letters in a card, scrambled, to assemble himself. "t h a n k s c o a c h l o u ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, most important, you have to love it! Don't live for three years in someone else's house. I think anything from white to cream to beige is usually appealing. Very light neutral blue is trendy and probably going to be around for a while. Green is out, but yellow is still nice in a kitchen, I think. Gray should still be ok in three years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

"Because of skin" oversimplifies too. It's much more my tribe, your tribe. My people, those people. Insiders, outsiders. The color is just a simple way to see who's who, but not the first origin of rivalry and hatred. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This one cites the proceedings of a Planned Patenthood conference as a source for pre-1973, but it's a book and I don't think I could have any way to access it.

You're right, they do cite that further down. But that article says nothing whatsoever pre-1973, so their hundreds of thousands statistic is pure hearsay in this instance. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They are a pro-abortion lobbying group and have cited no source whatsoever, so I take it as biased rambling.

*quote removed by request without which post does not have context* Oh, got it. Since only a certain group of people has this opinion, then it's irrelevant. And maybe even a disliked group of people? Look, totally reliable BuzzFeed says that various countries around the world are more or less opposed than we Americans are. (Yes, I know this is mostly a joke.) https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-23-countries-around-the-world-feel-about-abortio?utm_term=.quzKlP40W#.nux5Xgyzw You will also have to write off most Africans and half of South Americans and Asians as irrelevant, leaving Europe as the be all and end all enlightened supporters of abortion rights. But even there, I could find a solid 10-20% who agree with my patronizing ideas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_attitudes_towards_abortion

I don't know a thing about your aunt, obviously. I have read that the number of deaths from illegal abortion circa 1970 was very low, 100-200 women in the US. I've read that the numbers were a gross exaggeration made up to legalize abortion. I have read these things in biased sources. I have looked up their CDC citations and found that they lump miscarriage with induced abortion and are useless. My poor source: http://www.equip.org/PDF/DA020-1.pdf I challenge you to find a credible statistic that many women died in the 60s and 70s before Roe v Wade from unsafe abortion. I am convinced that it happened in very small numbers. But please, prove me wrong with data. If you cannot, it's one biased source against another. Adults die from complications all kinds of surgeries in the US today. And of course there was probably some small fraction of non-medical, truly unsanitary abortions then. Heck, I'm pretty sure there are a few of those even today.

It says by weeks of gestation.

From the article you've cited yourself, legalizing abortion in third-world countries would not necessarily make it safe. Making it illegal in a first-world country would not necessarily make it unsafe. Most "back alley" abortions before Roe v Wade were performed by medical professionals in sterile, legal medical clinics. Yes, in countries with poor medical care, abortions are also poor quality.

That's correct. It's a semantic argument. We Catholics believe that you can induce labor before viability, do a hysterectomy, remove a tube, etc, which will kill the baby, in order to save the mother, if the death of the baby is not directly intended, and that is not an abortion. It's the same effect as "abortion should be legal to save the mother" but stated in a way that is more logically consistent and also more confusing to the average person.

Correct. Most who oppose abortion support it for rape and the life of the mother. The rape thing is illogical but popular. Many abortions for the life of the mother are, as discussed above, not philosophically or ethically considered abortion, though medically they may be.

Yes, eugenics has been a theory for a long time. Kill the poor babies, they will amount to no good. http://www.jrsa.org/projects/Historical.pdf Does this graph look like abortion has lowered the crime rate? Nope.

I think the exceptionally long and short labors are both usually more difficult and potentially traumatic, compared to a typical 4-10 hour labor. I was in extremely intense, horribly painful back labor, contractions every two minutes, for thirty-six hours with my first baby! It was very traumatic, especially because the midwife refused to intervene after I begged and sobbed and sent me home that way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Any sources about historical times in which illegal abortions were bad for society? Of course a mother's life means very much. I don't think that certain lifesaving procedures are abortions at all, if the death of the baby is not directly intended but an unfortunate consequence of saving the mother's life. Anyway, those are less than five percent of abortions, over 90% have no medical indication whatsoever.

http://www.pewforum.org/2017/01/11/public-opinion-on-abortion-2/

False. 39% of Americans 2017 believe that abortion should be illegal with possible exceptions for rape and medical conditions. Why? Because murder. Not outlier. I'm certain that 39% of the country does not believe in forced abortions. 39% does believe in making abortion illegal. Logical fallacies: -Nobody else thinks that, so it's not true. -Negative labeling. That idea is "paternalistic," so I can just ignore it instead of refuting it.