Glitter Ninja wrote:
>
> A former co-worker of mine used to brag about how once her kids were 8
> and 10, respectively, she stopped cooking. Said they stopped having
> dinner and everyone was on their own. She once admitted to eating a bag
> of Milk Duds for dinner. Her husband routinely ate microwave popcorn
> for dinner and her daughters learned to mooch off neighbors or eat
> microwave mac and cheese. [snip the rest of sad tale]

You say she bragged about this? What admirable quality did she think
she was displaying by this abdication of responsibility for her
children? I mean, what did she think she had to brag about? -aem