When your children are dating and looking for love, many of you - their parents - are also dating, though one step removed. You are looking for someone lovable enough for your kid. That's the code of the hills. Your son or daughter or their cousins or your grandkids are either online or out there in the night seeking somebody to marry. The New York Times reports that one in 10 of America's searchers for romance have signed in to online dating websites. They are not merely looking over the contenders in search of a partner. If they are astute and considerate, they will also eventually run prime candidates past you, the elders. And yes, we elders have some rights in the matter. At least when a promising relationship ripens to its fullest and sweetest, we deserve the courtesy of getting a peek at leading hopefuls. Anything else would verge on electronic elopement/Bill Hall, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Did you kids run possible mates past you before they tied the knot?