Do you fucking mind us?!

Mommy bloggers: are some using their kids to get rich?:

Man videotapes naked daughters while emotionally abusing them: he’s a tad confused. Woman writes about daughter under real name with dressed photos: bitch!

Calling Mr. Mom?:

And women still perform twice the housework and three times the child care that men do, even in homes where women are the primary breadwinners. (…)The life-work dilemma for women has long been that “the workplace has changed in their favor, but home hasn’t,” she says. Men, however, “have the opposite problem. More is expected of them at home, but expectations have not shifted at work.” Which explains why the percentage of fathers in dual-income households who say they suffer work-family conflict has risen to 59 percent from 35 percent since 1977.

We Hate Children:

Recognition of children’s rights is a step forward for humanity, because children are us; they are our future and they are a product of our input into them. If we want to have our human rights recognized (and we do), then we need to recognize theirs. If they behave badly, chances are it is because we taught them to behave badly. If they reject us, it is because we rejected them. If we want them to have good values and good behavior, then it is on us to teach them. If you have a problem with young people, then it is probably your problem.

Do Children Really Do Better With Parents Together?:

The notion that “Children ALWAYS do better with parents together” is almost certainly false.

Children of lesbian parents do better than their peers:

Compared with a group of control adolescents born to heterosexual parents with similar educational and financial backgrounds, the children of lesbian couples scored better on academic and social tests and lower on measures of rule-breaking and aggression.

Why feminists shouldn’t have to keep mum:

We don’t need to be told what pregnancy, birth and childcare are like. We’re just also interested in how they could be in future. We’re interested in an approach to motherhood which does not blindly ‘respect’ women who reproduce without any recognition of them as individuals with beliefs worth scrutinizing. We’re interested in how much better our experiences could be if parenting could be shared by everyone, not just those who think pregnancy bestows authority and unaccountability in equal measure. Above all, we’d like mothers to consider themselves too important to be patronized and tiptoed around. So instead of trying to silence us, why not join us?