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ORIGINAL: LadyPact

I am aniti 'bring the baby to the munch' stance. If the munch is labeled as adults only, that's the way it should stay and the attendees shouldn't be bringing children, whether that is two weeks old or two weeks shy of their eighteenth birthday. It sends a conflicting message to any first time attendees for them to walk in, see a child, and have them thinking it's cool to bring their three year old next time. And, guess what? They'd be within their right to do so because the "adults only" requirement wasn't adhered to before, was it?

If you want to show off the new baby, you can always hold a "family friendly" get together. Leave the adults only function for adults.

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ORIGINAL: tsatske

This is not a very child friendly country.

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

I admit if I go someplace and I see children there, even if they are well behaved, I usually don't want to always be there. I have an adult child now. I did my time. I don't wanna go back. When I go to a lot of places I wanna see adults, not children.

I'm not saying I don't like kids...sure...but I'm like grandma....let me hold them for a couple of minutes and then give them back to you and if you need me to take them for the weekend....I'm busy.

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ORIGINAL: Moonlightmaddnes

It is nuts how some kids are allowed to run wild today, It is not hard to raise well behaved children. I am on my 3rd and none of them ever ran wild or screamed in a store. The only time my kids have ever even screamed in public was when they were playing and she fell hitting her head and ended up with a nasty gash in her forehead. I have never had to drag my kids out of a public area due to a fit. I scratch my head at people since I know it is not that hard to have well behaved children. Trust me I am very very far from the perfect mother and yet my kids behave.

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ORIGINAL: njlauren

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ORIGINAL: theRose4U

Uhhhh where exactly do you think a child pervs favorite place to eat is?? Scarier is the single "might be gay" guy that knows where every local playland & park is located

ETA: this reminded me of a year ago walking in the park I walk past odd behaving out of place dude with a camera. Didn't think much until i stopped for dog watering & noticed guy taping little girl playing in the meadow. Call mom over telling her man is taping her kid. She says "yeah that's my husband" pointing the opposite direction from perv dude. I say "no that one over there" & point. Woman points & starts screaming about give her the tape & takes off after him with dad in hot pursuit leaving daughter playing with the dasies.
Stayed close to girl & called cops who later caught him taping a different family. Luckily dad had taped the perv & didn't realize it. Turned out to be local child porn guy. .
Lesson is always listen when my dogs growl at someone "for no reason"

There are sick people out there, but one note, the line "Scarier is the single "might be gay" guy that knows where every local playland & park is located" is offensive. If you said "Scarier is the guy who knows where every local playland and park is located", it would be okay, but that is offensive for several reasons:

1)saying 'might be gay' assumes that someone who is gay wants to go ofter children. People who go after children are pedophiles, they are attracted to children (usually male or female), and it is the fact that they are children that attracts them (they have stunted sexual development of some sort).

2)A large percentage of child molesters are married, not single

3)Most pedophiles are otherwise straight men, who have a fetish for young children. Pedophiles in general can be attracted to young children of either sex, in part because young kids are pretty androgynous.

4)that line assumes that a questioning gay male would first thing run to a park to find a young child, and that quite frankly is the worst of the lot, that is almost a blood libel, repeated on right wing talk radio, by the religiously stupid and general stupid fuckwads in general. Yeah, there is a group (or used to be) called Nambla that wanted to legalize sex with young boys, but they were treated as pariahs in the lGBT community and no gay rights group, or gays in general, would support them, for obvious reasons but mostly out of disgust, I know a lot of gay men and women, and the last thing in the world they would find attractive is a child. What you wrote is tantamount to saying gays are all pedophiles, and that quite frankly is disgusting. Do you also think that gays come about from being molested, that gays are out to 'convert' more of their kind? That may hold true for vampires in fantasy books, but if that is what you believe, I feel truly sorry for you.

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ORIGINAL: booklover13
I have to say congratulations to you on how you raise your kids. I don't have children but I've enjoyed interacting with kids during my life. However, I don't see what's wrong with teaching kids that they have to share the planet with other people and need to be thoughtful and respectful of other folks. My downstairs neighbors let their kids run wild, screaming, through their apartment. It literally shakes the building and makes listening to TV or trying to read impossible. When I complained to them in a polite manner I was told "they're children, what do you expect?". The family is Indian so I don't know if it has something to do with their culture.

No, I don't want kids around in an adult event. Yeah, I know everyone who has children believes their kids are super special and that the whole world should appreciate their specialness. Um, no.

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

hahaha....know the feeling. When my daughter left I was like "I'm throwing a party!"

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I would say its only a cultural thing if their is a society designed to raise demon spawn

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ORIGINAL: booklover13


My downstairs neighbors let their kids run wild, screaming, through their apartment. It literally shakes the building and makes listening to TV or trying to read impossible. When I complained to them in a polite manner I was told "they're children, what do you expect?". The family is Indian so I don't know if it has something to do with their culture.

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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady

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ORIGINAL: booklover13


My downstairs neighbors let their kids run wild, screaming, through their apartment. It literally shakes the building and makes listening to TV or trying to read impossible. When I complained to them in a polite manner I was told "they're children, what do you expect?". The family is Indian so I don't know if it has something to do with their culture.

This is one of the problems of living in an apartment where there are kids, or for the parents with children. If kids can't play during the day in their own home, where are they supposed to go?