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Big Families Are In

According to this AP story [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061008/ap_on_re_us/large_families], more families are opting for four or more children. I'm not surprised. I think the tide has turned for large families. I've been told by people in their

Something for Sunday Morning

"The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise of mortification [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10578b.htm]." St. Francis de Sales

More Pet Children

The New York Times says Genoa is dying for lack of children [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/world/europe/22genoa.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin] . This quote recalls a frequent theme of this blog: > In the Fiumara Mall, the rare mother pushing a

Marriage Encounter

Here's one of the most ironic puzzles of my adult life: Marriage Encounter Weekends [http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=95058]. Never has anything sounded so repugnant to me, yet widely endorsed by many people I respect. Why does it sound repugnant? *If my wife and

Macca and Mucca

The Paul McCartney divorce is getting into full swing. Go here [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006360565,00.html] for all the details. Entertaining stuff, especially when you learn that the wife is a former porn actress ("You'd expect so much more from a

Pictures

Trip to Milwaukee: Daughter Abbie (11) and me at last Saturday's wedding. Don't freak out. She didn't drink too many. The seven and me in Cleveland. The faces have been shadowed out to protect our identity. Cleveland has a venerable mob history.

Max Turns 3

My fourth boy (sixth child overall) turns three today. He's no longer silent [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1870/], though he's still a coy child who prefers smiling to talking, but he often does both. Two more birthdays (Abbie, turning twelve, and Michael, turning eight) take place in

Of Course It's Boring

Interesting piece by Helen Kirwan-Taylor, a mother/writer who says her children bore her. The later article makes a few decent points (I, too, don't know why "good" parents have to attend every blasted sporting, band, or artistic event; moreover, I detest it when parents

The Wednesday Eudemon

A packed midweek. It started last night, when I took three of my older kids to Pirates of the Caribbean 2. It wasn't good. The plot didn't hold together nearly as well as the first one (which had an excellent plot and story lines that hung

More on Commodity Children

You remember B16's words about merely tolerating children [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4469/]? Well, the Times Online today ran an op-ed on the same subject [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,24391-2168664,00.html]. It might be the best opinion piece I've read all