Ugh, Humans Suck
Stumbled across this letter to Dear Abby:
DEAR ABBY: My mom and dad are divorced. Mom has a new boyfriend and my dad has a girlfriend. When I'm with my dad and his girlfriend is over, I feel left out because he doesn't pay as much attention to me as he used to. The sad thing is, when I'm with my mom I feel the same way.
Do you think it would be fair if one day out of the week my mom would take me somewhere for, like, an hour, and THEN my mom and I do something with her boyfriend? The same goes for my dad, too. -- LOST IN THE SHUFFLE
Kind of makes you retch knowing that there are parents who are this selfish as to put their own wants and desires so far ahead of their childrens'. Kind of makes you sad to belong to the human race. This is why I'm all for scientists working to find a way to insert some device into newborns to make them sterile until said device is removed later in life. And that device could only be removed after, say, age 25 and after the person has gone through some sort of parenting class and psychological evaluation.
Meh.