My Question of the Day: When Kirkland cleans the house, he’d prefer if his four-year-old son, Thad, weren’t so willing to help. What Kirkland can get done in 15 minutes takes almost twice as long when he has to show and explain to Thad how to do the same task, too. Do you think Kirkland should let Thad help or find something else to do to occupy his son’s time so he can get finished faster?

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My Question of the Day: Phillip started college three years ago as a Finance major, but now he wants to change his course of study so he can become a social worker.

His father, Dustin, is paying for Phillip’s education, and he wants Phillip to finish the degree in Finance, because he thinks Phillip will have a better future.

Father and son get into a heated discussion about the subject, and Dustin finally exclaims, “If you change your major, you’re on your own! If you want me to keep paying your tuition, you’ll finish the degree you started!”

What would you do if you were Phillip?

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My Question of the Day: What rights should a father have if a mother wants to terminate a pregnancy and the father doesn’t want her to?

My 2 Cents: This question was originally submitted by Direct Message through Twitter by @SGTMcClain and asked on 31 July 2009.

Go to My Question of the Day for 31 July 2009 to see my 2 cents and the other comments to this question.

I plan to continue to revisit previous questions I’ve asked on this blog.

Over the year that the blog has been active the people who comment have changed and the commenters who have been consistent may be surprised to see that their comments have changed to the same question.

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My Question of the Day: We live in a highly-sexualized society these days. With that in mind, would you say that a man who is the father of a daughter or daughters is less-likely to exploit/objectify women?

My 2 Cents: I’d have to say “no” to this.

It’s true that we live in a highly-sexualized society, but people are able to rationalize all kinds of things in order to indulge themselves.

Once a person rationalizes that it’s OK, because it’s not his mother, sister, wife or daughter, then he compartmentalizes the ones he loves from the ones he objectifies.

There’s a disconnect between the two “worlds,” so he has no problem exploiting/objectifying whomever.

The “worlds” collide when it actually is his mother, sister, wife or daughter, but even that can be rationalized and compartmentalized once the issue has to be confronted.

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My Question of the Day: You cannot have Heathcliff Huxtable from “The Cosby Show” or Ward Cleaver from “Leave it to Beaver” as your father. You have to choose between Homer Simpson of “The Simpsons” or Peter Griffin of “Family Guy.” Who do you pick and why?

My 2 Cents: Um. I’m going to have to go with Homer, like most of you. I don’t like how Peter treats his daughter, Meg.

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3. Please keep your comments respectful. We can agree to disagree without attacking each other.