Stephen,
Thanks for your opinion. It is well stated, and I do agree on the obesity thing. But I found a couple of irresponsible comments:

>having absolutely no first-hand knowledge

uneducated, unreasonable and unilateral > Stephen

You have no idea how much I know about this subject, so I guess you are just throwing a few rocks. I am not offended. Chances are that I am a lot older than you are and I have seen more of life than you can imagine. I grew up in a home with an alcoholic father. He worked long hard hours and made reasonable money, but little of it ever got home. Sometimes, when he came home he was a person who was not my father. I say that because my father was a hard working, loving, artistic guy with an odd sense of humor. He was a great story teller.

Poverty and alcoholism were a double whammy that I lived with until I saved up $140 from a summer job and went off to college. I was 20 years old and did not look at it as running away from home. My mother died from tobacco and my father from alcohol. I had nightmares for decades about what alcohol did to my father and my family.

Trying to work my way through college meant avoiding expensive, addictive behavior. I seldom drank a cup of coffee, because I didn't see 5 cents worth of food value in it. Tobacco and alcohol were out of the question. By the time I was out of school, I guess I was smart enough to know better.

So good luck, Stephen. I hope you and Kelly and others can handle it, because if you can't, you are going to need all the luck you can get.

I'm sorry if I offended you, that was not my intention.
Howard