# My 16yo son ignored Mother's Day.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 10, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-16yo-son-ignored-mothers-day/719727 "2015-05-10T21:52:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-16yo-son-ignored-mothers-day/719727/401 "2015-05-26T17:08:04Z")

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OMG an otherwise well behaved teenage boy is inconsiderate?

I wouldn’t worry about it. Almost every teenage boy I know gets frog marched by their dad to get a mother’s day card for their mom.

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**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-16yo-son-ignored-mothers-day/719727/402 "2015-05-26T20:09:34Z")

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> [@Urbanredneck](#):
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> I suspect that when Jarvis created the holiday in 1905 she never though about how 2 lesbians living together, who can have a son thru artificial means, would celebrate such an event?
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> It makes one wonder what will happen if children are someday cloned or created in artificial wombs?
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> I mean she probably had a specific image in mind.
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> Its interesting how over the years the greeting card makers have tried to push a grandparents day and a mother in law day but it never really went over.

You are the worst. The end.

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**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-16yo-son-ignored-mothers-day/719727/403 "2015-05-26T21:12:28Z")

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> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> OMG an otherwise well behaved teenage boy is inconsiderate?
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> I wouldn’t worry about it. Almost every teenage boy I know gets frog marched by their dad to get a mother’s day card for their mom.

Therein lies the problem: two moms = no-one to do the frog-marching. 😉

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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-16yo-son-ignored-mothers-day/719727/404 "2015-05-26T21:22:44Z")

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> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#):
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> You are the worst. The end.

Pretty much–although I very much hope the idiot answers Ca3799’s question.

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