Parental Warning

Birth control and condom sales will experience an increase around the city: The New York Times looks at the recent trend of adult children coming to live back at home (which seems to accompany parents continuing to support their children into their, eek, mid 30s). The NY Post, in a story about how city schools seem to be focused on the attractiveness of bulletin boards over the increasing school violence, has this picture of Lt. Eric Adams demonstrating "how parents may search their children�s backpacks."

Some people brave enough to be parents in this day and age: The new or expecting fathers in The Morning News' roundtable.

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By Jen Chung in News on December 22, 2003 9:38 AM

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Optimuscrime

You know, if your kid's packing heat in his backpack, maybe you should leave his backpack the fuck alone.

At that point, your concern about parental oversight is likely secondary to your concern about not catching junior's slug in the head.

Lux

Twenty-somethings living with their parents always strikes me as really weird. I haven't lived with my parents since I was seventeen... but I guess that makes me the exception rather than the norm.