Credit where credit is due: yesterday's Out of the Gene Pool comic contains this punch line (if you want to get the whole joke, read the comic): "Hey! I'm a single mother working a full-time job! I don't have time to prepare a big meal every evening! You and your rodent friend should raid the garbage of a big family with a stay-at-home parent." (Emphasis mine)

I spend lots of time taking folks to task for the petty crime of assuming that all at-home caregivers are mothers. So when someone takes the care to refer to at-home parents in a gender-neutral way, I want to make sure that I mention it.