Pooped in the shower: Readers, experts weigh in on dad's 'shaming' photo

Yes

Does the wage gap really start in kindergarten?

Yes; we should encourage young girls to think about high-paying fields.

• We keep hearing how children need to be separated in school because boys have it so bad. However, men have it good where it counts -- at the bank. How can things be so geared toward girls in school, but men end up making more money later? Frankly, as an educator, I think boys and girls do need to be …

• You do need to be a high school graduate to be an RN here, but you do not have to have a 4 year degree. My niece has a two degree.

The 'having it all' debate: What do you think?

Employers: They need to be more flexible.

The list is out! Top baby names for 2011 are...

Yes; I tried to pick names that are considered "normal" and would help them fit in.

Forget parent error: Car designs make seats hard to install

Yes

Pregnancy bias is alive and well in America

Yes

Which of Mariah Carey's twin's names do you like better?

Monroe

• Both s**k! Only children of stars can get away with having such goofy names. Moroccan doesn't sound like a human name at at.

What's the best child-care option for kids of working parents?

I think a good daycare setting in a school or institution is best.

• I don't know what the best choice is, but I know that the worst choice is usually leaving a child with relatives.

• Unfortunately, a lot of parents are not the best choice for their children. They don't deliberately harm them, but many parents are uneducated and ignorant. They are not good role models, let alone teachers--neither are their relatives. Their children need to see a different world each day to have a …

• No. What I am saying is that children, especially poor ones, need to experience a different world than the one their parents provide for them. I grew up on Chicago's south side in the worst neighborhood for a few years before ending up in foster care and the wealthy suburbs. I hold a three master's …

• If it takes a village to raise a child U73, then the village decides who's too ignorant and uneducated. Frankly, fools can have children. If you can't read or write and have no income, the perhaps those things should be clues as to your readiness to be a good parent. I think this society owes you n …

• No, I don't think danger-D has it backwards. We're told about the superiority of heterosexuality, but apparently that superiority is limited by conditions that do not follow natural laws. The natural law is that heterosexuality leads to breeding, which is what is supposedly superior about it.

Marijuana moms say pot is no worse than alcohol and teens shouldn't get jail time for experimenting. Do you agree?

No.

• Pot's influence on society has been mitigated by the fact that it is illegal. Had cigarettes been illegal many smokers wouldn't be.

• When people are engaged in illegal behavior they monitor their actions.

• The repeated drunk drivers are alcoholics. Pot smokers are monitoring their behavior because they know that it is illegal.

• Kov68, I wouldn't make any sense to a dope-head. You are comparing pot smokers to alcoholics. I believe that it is true that fewer people are addicted to pot than to alcohol. However, I believe that is largely true because alcohol has a larger foothold in society, because it is legal. It is more acc …

• ...and how do you know those things? There is more evidence pointing toward pot smoking leading to an increase in addictive behaviors than there is that pot is harmless. I know some real pot heads, who just put a wet towels under their doors at night and get zonked. They're fire risks. I've also bee …

• ...and alcohol is legal. Drinkers do not modify or monitor their behavior to the same degree as pot smokers, because they are not engaged in illegal activity. Both are bad. Plus, pot probably does cause lung cancer, especially if people are allowed to smoke it unmonitored.

• No. The drug dealers will still sell it more cheaply than the government. So not only will there be little increase in revenue, but users will monitoring their behavior.

• Go to an Al-Anon meeting. You'll find that for the children and significant others of those who are often impaired, it doesn't matter if the drug of choice is alcohol, cocaine, pot or any other drug that impairs the senses. An absent, self-centered spouse or parent is one period. My cousin likes to  …

• My family has similar problems. Half of my family won't associate with the other half, because one half wants to drink and get stoned at every gathering and the other half is now clean and sober. One of my cousins is also a drug dealer. Believe me, that idiot will not be under-priced by the governme …

• Jeanne, that's like saying that it's okay to add more pollutants to the air because the air is already polluted. Some things we can not easily give up; they are not superfluous and when it comes to food and many other daily environmental factors the research is conflicting. We really don't know how  …

• Boy, you're dumb.

• Is smoking pot safer than smoking cigarettes? If not, why are we trying to get people to quit smoking, while at the same time trying to legalize pot? As a former smoker, I know that part of what made quitting difficult was the fact that it is legal and I could walk into any corner store and buy it.  …

• Do you think drug dealers will actually be under-priced by the government?

• Legal pot and drug dealer are not oxymorons.

• Many drug dealers, right now, have felony records. They will not be able to get licenses to peddle their drugs legally. Is that clearer?

• The WHO has repeatedly said that there is a safe level at which to drink. Wine, for instance, is beneficial. There is no safe level at which to smoke, and I think that's true even when it comes to pot. And I do not drink.