Things that suck...

    Here's yet another reason you should have to pass a test to become a parent by any means, in any part of the world.  In the light of all the awful things that are done to children in the world, this probably isn't remotely the worst, but it is perhaps the most flabbergasting.  I guess I need to broaden my horizons when it comes to my contempt for most modern parenting practices.  I mean, sure, American parents tend to coddle and shield their children way too much, or in the other extreme, ignore them outright, but I don't think we're going out of our way to get children just to abandon them.