OF A GOLDEN AGE

She told me how happy she was that they were open about things. How comfortable she was with him. How she couldn’t believe it herself. How she never thought she could feel this way. [...] Now that I knew, could I carry on a conversation with him without punching him in the face?

– Mother and guest-blogger Kathleen Volk Miller, in a Motherlode post titled “Teaching Teenagers About the Joy of Sex.”

It seems that during the Sexual Revolution we began a generational oscillation, wherein the parents are conservative and their children are radical, or the parents are radical and their children are conservative. And it also seems that now, in the age of realtime internet scrutiny of everything, the pattern is about to blow apart. Here’s a thought exercise: Decide something, tell the internet about it, and wait for the wildly overenthusiastic yeas and nays to roll in.

In this case, Motherlode commenters are 50% “Your open and trusting relationship with your daughter is so, so excellent!” and 50% “You could literally not be a bigger creep and worse mother if you tried.”

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