My wife works on Saturdays and so I'm home with my step-son... cleaning the yard, the kitchen, the bedroom... I am. He's of course locked in his room only to venture out to heat up some wings then to hurriedly make his way back to his room to do what 12, almost 13 year old boys do in their room.

I've noticed over the past few days I've been here that the majority of posters here are downright contemptible of their stepkids. It seems like a huge amount of energy and anger is spent accusing and arguing with these kids. Kids suck as a general rule. This has been my opinion since.. well.. since I was a kid. I don't dislike my stepson. I love him. He's spoiled and he gets away with things a boy his age who would have grown up in a two parent home would never have gotten away with. His mother has had to work most of his life.