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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Divorce will make your life about 99.9% better.[/quote]

Feel free to share your story of how your divorce helped protect your kids[/quote]

My dad was careless and my mom kept pointing it out.  From safety training at school, I knew she was right. So my sister and I generally followed mom's rules. My dad was a good dad in other ways.  I think all this "divorce now" stuff is kind of crazy.

Most Gen-Xers can remember doing things that are considered shockingly unsafe now.  Lots of us were put to sleep on our stomachs and rode in the back seat without seatbelts.  My first car seat was taken off the market because it didn't work very well and kids submarined right out of it (it was shaped like a play desk).  Several people I know were allowed to play with soft lead objects and molten lead.  As well as mercury.[/quote]

Yeah, a lot of people who are SO APPALLED by this dad are probably texting and driving on occasion — which is as bad as drunk driving.

I do think the leaving a toddler in waist deep water while you go cook is really egregious (but does this mom think a toddler is 2 or 4.5). But some of the other stuff, I’m a lot more meh about. OP is also refusing to say how old the older kids are so I bet at least one of them is old enough that some of us would not be so worried about some of this. [/quote]

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