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Should dads kiss their daughters on the lips?
When my girl was little, she enjoyed my parental displays of affection. She would giggle with delight when I smothered her with kisses all over her head, her hands, her tummy and her little lips. Like many families do, we said hello, goodbye, good morning and goodnight with kisses. But unlike some, our kisses were often applied directly to the lips.
I think giving a child a peck on the mouth is a perfectly natural way to express love. But based on a letter received by advice columnist Margot Howard, not everyone agrees. An anonymous woman, who signed her letter “Want My Husband’s Lips for Myself,” finds her husband’s habit of kissing his 5-year-old daughter on the mouth to be “a sexual gesture and very inappropriate.” Continue reading »
Are you an affectionate father? Good for you. Might want to reign that in, however, if you ever visit Brazil. Thanks to a new law intended to crack down on pedophiles traveling to the area to prey on young girls, an Italian man was arrested recently for kissing his own daughter in public.
Father, mother and daughter all insist that it was simple, playful, parental affection. Yet the man remains jailed a week later.
A WNBA team has decided my kid needs to be protected from lesbians and kissing. And maybe a little bit of both.
Note to self: put a call in to the gay community to rustle up some liplocking lezzies stat. Then we’re off to a Washington Mystics game, my child in tow! Continue reading »
Good news for working moms: your hugability factor has been backed up by a new study. In other words, the rest of the world now knows what you’ve known since the minute that bundle of joy arrived: you hug your kids just as much as the stay-at-home moms. Continue reading »
There’s been a lively debate going on over at my post about a judge who ruled that a man’s children couldn’t be “exposed” to his gay friends. And one of the biggies is the assertion by several Babble readers that they wouldn’t allow someone (gay or straight) to hold hands in front of their kids.
So I’m wondering, Babble readers, where do you draw the line?
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