Word: adult
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What if your adult children are totally freaked out by the thought of you going out on dates...
...basic rule of thumb, your father has sex, your mother doesn't. It's not clear how we all come to think this. For those people whose adult children are uncomfortable with this, number one, are you yourself handling this in a way that suits your value system? If the answer to that is yes, which it often is, I think the kids are going to have to adjust...
...With adult clothing, pricey collector's dolls and a pickup bar, the store sends a clear signal that Mattel intends to seduce an older demographic. This isn't as crazy as it may seem. In Asia, the Barbie brand is not deeply entrenched, so grown-ups are less likely to automatically dismiss it as kids' stuff. Besides, Asians don't necessarily put away childish things as they age. Collecting toys such as Hello Kitty merchandise well into adulthood is common. "Asian culture loves cute," says Richard Dickson, general manager of the Barbie brand. "They're much more comfortable with character...
...going to buy her daughter a doll with breasts," Ruth Handler's husband and business partner Elliot insisted. Her other male colleagues at Mattel, the company she founded, concurred. But Handler, a 5-ft. 2-in. (1.6 m) dynamo, was convinced there was a market for a mass-produced adult doll. Little girls aspired to be bigger girls, she reasoned. For years she pressed on, finally introducing the doll at the 1959 Toy Fair in New York City...
...unrelenting ambition that ends sadly but not unsuccessfully. Sales of Barbie, plus her carefully tailored outfits and paraphernalia, garnered more than $1 billion last year, helping keep Mattel the world's No. 1 toymaker. The curvaceous doll, who would measure 39-21-33 if she were an adult woman, is both an icon and a kitsch object that has provoked feminist ire. In recent years, Barbie's sales have vacillated because of competing dolls and other childhood diversions like video games. (The maker of a popular rival, the Bratz doll, was just ordered to turn over its franchise to Mattel...