How many kids do you have?
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VorpalBunny
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Two wonderful daughters. One is four and the other is two weeks old. 
Darth K'Trava
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None. Unless my three cats count.... 
Torm
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Not to be a party-pooper, and not that I suspect anyone specific of anything, but I just HAVE to point out that answering a question like this on the 'net is Out-Security as anything. If I were to meet any of you at a gameday or something, and you seemed okay, I might talk about my kids in detail - but certainly not on a message board.
Pbartender
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We've been married for a little more than 6 years.
We've got a 6½ year old boy, and a 5 year old (almost, her birthday is on the 27th) girl.
We are done having children with the utmost finality.
Two is enough to replace us. If we ever want another child running around the house, there are more than enough of them floating around out there for us to adopt.
We've got a 6½ year old boy, and a 5 year old (almost, her birthday is on the 27th) girl.
We are done having children with the utmost finality.
Two is enough to replace us. If we ever want another child running around the house, there are more than enough of them floating around out there for us to adopt.
Doctor Futurity
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Torm said:
???????????
What is "out-security" and why is this, ah, an odd subject? I have several gaming buddies who will gab about their kids to a bloody doormat if it looked like it was listening. Seems like becoming a dad makes you kinda stupid and boring like that (joke! joke!)
My wife and I are clasic DINKS. Two cats: Mr. Boo and Chao Chao. No plans for kids; we love our free time and surplus income too much, and suspect that by the time we actually feel like getting kids it will be time to adopt.
Torm
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"Out-Security" is anything you do that would allow someone who might mean you no-good a way to find you or entry to your home, or anything like that.
In this particular case, while I'd love to say that I know I can trust everyone on this board, to be completely honest there are a LOT of people here I don't know at all. And even if that weren't the case, who knows who might be lurking a bunch of different message boards looking for information like this? Everyone from child molesters to weird stalkers to :::shudder::: commerical demographers.
You may think this is the height of paranoia, and if so, you apparently haven't seen what I have:
My job keeps me pretty busy now, but back when it consisted of 15 minutes of real work and 7 hrs 45 min of trying to LOOK busy, I used to "patrol" certain online chatrooms - ones dedicated to N'Sync, certain toys, things like that. I had someone in those rooms trying to lure 10 year olds to meet them pretty much EVERY DAY. Not to pat myself on the back, but thanks to my being there looking for that crap, those that I saw found themselves flooded off the 'net with their nicks and their IPs banned from the chat service. Admittedly, that didn't stop them forever - time to sign up again for them, I guess. But not on my watch.![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
I was constantly counselling kids on what NOT to tell people online. A thirteen year old girl mentions what state she lives in, her school mascot, and a local pizza shop she and her friends hang out at after school a lot, and even if those seemingly harmless items were in different conversations on different days, she may have just given a dedicated child rapist what he needed to find her. And this doesn't just apply to kids, either - unfortunately, a lot of parents choose to put up personal info and family pictures and such on their personal pages. Some pervert just said, "Thanks for the catalog."
I believe in the overall goodness of humanity. But out of the ones who AREN'T, there are some smart and dedicated devotees to their sicknesses, and one has to be careful anywhere people can be anonymous - cause there may be very little way to track them when they act and its too late.
In this particular case, while I'd love to say that I know I can trust everyone on this board, to be completely honest there are a LOT of people here I don't know at all. And even if that weren't the case, who knows who might be lurking a bunch of different message boards looking for information like this? Everyone from child molesters to weird stalkers to :::shudder::: commerical demographers.
You may think this is the height of paranoia, and if so, you apparently haven't seen what I have:
My job keeps me pretty busy now, but back when it consisted of 15 minutes of real work and 7 hrs 45 min of trying to LOOK busy, I used to "patrol" certain online chatrooms - ones dedicated to N'Sync, certain toys, things like that. I had someone in those rooms trying to lure 10 year olds to meet them pretty much EVERY DAY. Not to pat myself on the back, but thanks to my being there looking for that crap, those that I saw found themselves flooded off the 'net with their nicks and their IPs banned from the chat service. Admittedly, that didn't stop them forever - time to sign up again for them, I guess. But not on my watch.
I was constantly counselling kids on what NOT to tell people online. A thirteen year old girl mentions what state she lives in, her school mascot, and a local pizza shop she and her friends hang out at after school a lot, and even if those seemingly harmless items were in different conversations on different days, she may have just given a dedicated child rapist what he needed to find her. And this doesn't just apply to kids, either - unfortunately, a lot of parents choose to put up personal info and family pictures and such on their personal pages. Some pervert just said, "Thanks for the catalog."
I believe in the overall goodness of humanity. But out of the ones who AREN'T, there are some smart and dedicated devotees to their sicknesses, and one has to be careful anywhere people can be anonymous - cause there may be very little way to track them when they act and its too late.
James Heard
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A single 12 (going on 45) year old daughter who lives with her mother and doesn't particularly have much time to call me quite as much as I'd like anymore. I'm coming to the conclusion that eventually I'm going to need a Playstation or Xbox or else I'm lost...Or maybe the neighbor boys will start getting hawt soon. Who knows?
Anyways, I've contributed to the world gene pool. I think that's dangerous enough as is. We'd all probably have been safer if I'd just made up a few bobble-heads of myself.
Anyways, I've contributed to the world gene pool. I think that's dangerous enough as is. We'd all probably have been safer if I'd just made up a few bobble-heads of myself.
