Thanks. I'm not going to attend this function, even though I've been receiving strange automated e-vite messages. Creepy. As far as educating folk on raising healthy and productive and self-sustaining children and citizens, I think the mental health professionals are making progress there. I mean, one thing that confused the hell out of me when I was young was how adults would blame kids for being kids. I mean, how weird is that? Children should be seen and not heard + they loved fresh vegetables and fresh fruit, but not fresh children. Then when the outcome of their "enlightened" childrearing skills produced me at 18, they were like, "that is not our problem" and deposited me in a homeless shelter to be kicked around with the rest of the indigent population. Heartless? All I can do is report the facts of my history for a feeling of not being a helpless victim. Still, I feel helpless and vulnerable for no apparent reason, many times. Now I get looked down on as being a whiner by many people I try very hard to avoid. Sometimes I think it is and has been hunting season on anyone who can't pretend to be John Wayne. Sometimes I wish I could move to a different planet, or maybe trick all the macho wanna-bes to move to another planet with no-one to torment and torture but themselves. I wouldn't shed a tear or lose any sleep if that happened, that is for sure. Thanks.