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POPSMaking History: Man Prepares To Give Birth This is completely fascinating to me. Of course, it reminds me of the old Billy Crystal movie, "The Rabbit Test", where Crystal plays a man who becomes pregnant. I haven't seen that movie in years. But, ever since I saw it, I have watched to see if science would ever advance the real idea of men giving birth. Technically, the man in this clip is transgendered, meaning he was born with female reproductive organs, but looks like a man and lives as a male. The discrimination and the bigotry that he has faced through the healthcare system and from his own family is sad and despicable. I will continue to follow this story with some fascination. Mostly because it smacks in the face of everything we have come to know and expect when it comes to the idea of creating a family.
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POPSAmerica's Outsourced Jobs Taking Toll on Indian Workforce This last gift, I wouldn't wish on anybody. All those US jobs that went away to India are now taking their toll on the Indians who took on the outsourced tasks. My Gran used to say that "money isn't everything, especially if you aren't going to be around to enjoy it." It looks like a lot of these folks are feeling the strain of trying to balance a "good job" with good mental and physical health.
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POPSInternet pranking leads to teenager's suicide An alarming story. A troubled teenage girl befriends a boy on MySpace. Eventually he dumps her. She commits suicide. The parents then find out that the boy was a fictitious creation of an ex-friend of their daughter's with help from a parent. Via http://snipr.com/1ttrw
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POPSRepealing no-fault divorce can help families? A state task force wants to repeal no-fault divorce and "encourage" mothers to stay home. At least one member of said task force publicly proclaimed that divorce is a way for Satan to undermine society.
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POPSSoldiers families Suffer Rates of neglect and abuse of the children of servicemen and women rose 42% within the family when the enlisted parent was deployed on a combat mission, according to a new study led by senior health analyst Deborah Gibbs of RTI International, a research institute in North Carolina. Previous studies have shown an association between combat-related deployments and higher levels of stress in the family, and it is this stress that is thought to play a major role in the maltreatment of children by the parent who stays home.
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POPSChildren Are To Be Seen And Not Heard: Airline Edition This is ridiculous. I hope the family sues and wins. Toddlers babble...that's how they learn to talk like "grown folks". I am getting so tired of hearing stories like this (sometime ago, another family got kicked off a flight because a toddler hit his mother while she was trying to calm him down while having a tantrum and the "attendant" had the child kicked off for assaulting "a passenger"--the aforementioned mother!). Adding insult to injury, note that both mentioned incidents happened after long ass delays of the flights. I realize that since 9/11 flight attendants think they are the guardians of the skies, but a lot of these incidents are leaning towards completely f*king stupid!
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POPSTroop Extensions: CNN Opinion Page Read all the comments. Many are from actually soldiers or military family members and even vets. Some support the extension, others do not. It's just CNN, but it is an interesting "snap-shot" perspective on how some people feel about what is happening to our troops (and their families).
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POPSExtensions Don't Just Stretch The Army, They Stretch Families, Too!
This war is putting a strain on many military families and marriages. I seem to regularly hear about "another spousal suicide" in my neck of the woods...things that do not get reported in the msm, because it's one of those things that the military doesn't report because it would "harm the troops morale". A year ago, a woman across the street was found dead, her husband was in Iraq and he worked side by side with my husband. He "got to" come home...sadly. I hear about divorces on a regular basis, some families work it out, most don't. Who gets married to spend most of their marriage apart? I guess it follows the old adage that if the Army wanted you to have a family, they would have issued you one." I heard that a lot when I was pregnant and needed my husband home and we weren't even at war then! It's hard enough raising a child as a couple, it's even harder trying to raise normal, happy kids who know they have a daddy, but never get to see him.
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POPSFamily Life vs Military Life I thought it was appropriate to clip this as a follow up to another clip I posted. It doesn't matter whether a soldier supports the context of this war. It doesn't matter their reasons for joining or even re-enlisting. What matters is that continual separation from family and loved ones for extended amounts of time, not to mention jobs (for reserve/guard members), is actually putting more strain on the soldiers as they miss out on those things that the average citizen takes for granted such as baby's first word or Junior's first day of school or Junior's high school graduation or even the births of their children. It's a shame that the family value's crowd seems not to care about the families of these soldiers so long as they have the bodies they need to fight these two wars. Rather they would like to beat up on homosexuals and blame them for the breakdown of the traditional family. These days, I'd say that continuous war is doing just what they accuse gay people of doing.
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POPSGilligan and Pruett respond to Dobson's use of their research Carol Gilligan and Kyle Pruett have both written publicly to denounce James Dobson's Time Magazine column for falsely representing the results of their research in order to make a case against allowing same-sex couples to raise children. See this clip for the original column.
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POPSJames Dobson weighs in on Mary Cheney's pregnancy James Dobson of Focus on the Family, writing in Time Magazine, offers the standard critique of allowing same-sex couples to rear children: kids need a mommy and a daddy. He even cites the work of several experts, both of whom say he misrepresented their research. See this clip for the response.
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