My obsession with advice columnists does not flag
Cary Tennis is weird. Some woman is writing in, asking if she should change the guardianship of her kids, should she and her husband die, from her sister to friends. I have no specific opinion about this question — in general, I think family is a better idea, but I can so easily think of exceptions that the general barely counts.
He says that she shouldn’t change this because, among other reasons:
If she always maintained a larger house on the off chance that she would have to take in your children and then learned, upon your death, that you never intended her to do so, it would compound her loss with a sense of betrayal.
Who the hell does that, unless the parents are both in high-risk occupations? Seriously. I’m my sister’s guardian — I think, in any case I would take care of her, god forbid — but I didn’t think “well, what if my parents die, is this place big enough for me and a teenager?” That’s just creepy.
April 18th, 2006 at 1:53 am
I completely read his column for the entertainment value of his random “advice” as opposed to trying to pick up any wisdom from his bizarre social commentary.