Flying the "friendly" skies just got a whole lot less friendly this past week when US Airways announced that they are going to stop allowing parents with small children to board early. Now parents will have to board with their section, even as they clutch car seats, strollers, diaper bags, and the dozen other large-scale items that make traveling with babies such a nightmare.

I am sure many will say suck it up, you don't have to fly, and sure, that may be true. But as a mom, I am disgusted by this. Flying is hard enough for ANYONE, let alone parents with our hands full of things, plus kids. We need the overhead compartments and the extra time to get settled, and this will make it practically impossible for one parent to even consider flying alone with a child.

It's not just that, though. We are also a society. And it says enormous amounts about our society if we treat children badly.

Lori "Lolo" Jones is an Olympic athlete whose speed is often unsurpassed on the track, but in the bedroom, she is apparently all about slowing it down. The 29-year-old told Bryant Gumbel on Real Sports that she is a virgin.

As Gawker said, the woman is smoking hot, so it's weird. But it's more than that, too. As an Olympic athlete, she sets an example for girls. So when she says that the hardest thing she has ever done in her life is to withhold sex, it isn't a great example for our girls. Additionally, why are we even discussing this? Why is a 29-year-old woman's sexual status even up for discussion?

I get that there are religious people who want to "save" sex for marriage. Like Jessica Simpson. See how well that worked out? But why do we have to hear about it?

There is rarely such a thing as an "uplifting" episode of 16 & Pregnant, but if there were such a thing, Devon's episode might be it. Sure, she is young and naive and she has no interest in feeling any pain, but hey, moms twice her age feel the same way, and honestly, there were many good things with her, too.

She is motivated. She is still together with her boyfriend. She has a supportive family. Her boyfriend is actually motivated, smart, and loving. He actually wants to be a dad.

We can sit here and say a mom can raise a baby on her own, but when push comes to shove, it's just a happier story when the dad isn't a complete low life deadbeat, isn't it?