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My sister died yesterday after being sick for 2-3 years. They asked me to do a reading at the mass. Told my niece I wasn’t a fan of God lately and that I would feel like a hypocrite. No thanks.

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Family & Parenting

Jul 13, 2019Jul 2019

Posted by CrazyQuilter

Do you think it is dysfunctional when 50 YO kids and their parent(s) spend nearly all their free time together? My family is not close, so I cannot understand this as a positive thing. It seems to me that kids should move on and have their own ...

If you teach a boy that women are inferior in front of a girl, you are teaching them both them same lesson.

Do you think its necessary for children to have a cell phone, and if so what age should they be.What are the pros and cons.

Elementary Education Has Gone Terribly Wrong in the US. We know this, but we don't see why. It's knowledge, not techniques we need to impart.

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Family & Parenting

Jul 11, 2019Jul 2019

Posted by TomMcGiverin

POLLI've been wondering for a while if most of us on Agnostic are mostly estranged from our families of origin or instead fairly close and involved with our immediate families. So I am interested in asking the ? With a poll, using what I suspect are the ...

3 votes I am estranged from my family because they are religious and I am not.
6 votes I am estranged from my family because they are conformist/mainstream and I am not.
14 votes I am estranged from my family because they are dysfunctional and/or toxic.
24 votes I am close to most or all of my family and/or very involved with all or most of them.
9 votes I am estranged from my family because I and they have simply become very different people from who we were when I was a child .

Here's a beautiful talk between three smart women. I just watched it and needed to share it.

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Family & Parenting

Jul 8, 2019Jul 2019

Posted by Ms_McSteven

I'm anxious. I think it's starting to spiral into depression. I need to stop the process, so I'm just going to vent here, and it will be long. I can't vent on FB, because what's giving me anxiety is my family. I'm being pressured by my brother ...

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Family & Parenting

Jul 8, 2019Jul 2019

Posted by ownworstenemy

The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree is more than a saying. There's science behind it now. Trauma has a genetic component that is passed to offspring.

A family of four stuck with a Virgin Atlantic flight they'd booked that became a drag queen Pride Flight in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. The flight featured Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s Tituss Burgess and RuPaul’s Drag ...

Posted by Katsarecool

How to get two over 6 ft tall teenagers to do chores around the house? Help! The oldest is almost 17, 6 ft 2 in tall walks like a sloth, comes out of his room to go to the bathroom, comes out when my daughter (his servant) puts the meals o the ...

What about a man's right to choose? women have the right to have an abortion terminate all responsibility for an unwanted child, what rights do men have? it should be possible for a man to terminate parental rights prior to the birth of the ...

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Family & Parenting

Jun 26, 2019Jun 2019

Posted by UpsideDownAgain

How do you teach your teenagers ethics and values?

Doggo update: for anyone curious about the sweet hounddog I found, I found her owners, they came and picked her up Sunday afternoon, and brought me one of her beautiful 5 month old puppies. They suspect she was indeed an abandoned hunting dog but ...

My divorce has an address. The good news is that it is on the other side of the world in the holy land. :)

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Family & Parenting

Jun 21, 2019Jun 2019

Posted by FatherOfNyx

Posted by APaleBlueDot

I find this ad to have some interesting inconsistencies.

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LINKParents brawl over a 13-year-old umpire's call at a youth baseball game - CNN

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