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Category: criticizing grown children

  • The Grandchild IOU: Can we sue if our kids don’t reproduce?

    Here's the premise: After we've helped support our adult children through college and early work years, they (and their spouse)  owe us grandkids. If they don't deliver, they should pay us back. Moreover, we can sue them if they don't fulfill their part of the next-generation equation.  Hah! A laughable notion, right? But in India,…

  • The 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not comment on thy children’s appearance.

    When my brother was recovering from his first round of chemo for intestinal cancer, he put on a lot of weight. He was 45 years old, six feet tall and he blimped up to almost 300 pounds. My mother was unhappy about it. She was worried, of course, that weight gain was unhealthy but that's…