CR couple featured on Wife Swap Monday night

You might want to set your VCR/Tivo for this one. An article ran in Friday's Gazette, front page just below the fold. Unfortunately, there is no public version online. The show is set to air on Monday, 7 p.m. on ABC.

Cedar Rapids common-law couple, Kyle and Alison Askam, are featured on the show. Alison, 29, trades places with a mom/wife from suburban Atlanta who is a Wiccan high priestess.

Some of the quotes from the article which set me off:

"...Alison Askam, 29, is a stay-at-home mom who caters to her family's every need and is jokingly referred to as having less authority than the family dog."

"The Askams have two children -- her son... and their son..."

And the one which had me tossing the paper across the room:

Alison...changed the Thompson household drastically when she got the chance. She enrolled the family's two young girls in a cheerleading program and made her 'new' husband, Kenny Thompson, king of the houshold. She did all the cooking and cleaning and urged him to relax and watch football.

"I was just doing your basic womanly duties," Askam said.

I have canceled the RW rag three times but I go back because I hate feeling clueless on local issues. I always consider getting the DM Register but it still wouldn't give local CR news. Last time I canceled when they picked up Ann Coulter's column.

What to do?.... hmmmm.

conference when asked what I'm going to do with the money I'll say, "you'll have to ask my husband, he's the boss of our household" just to watch all the women in the room suck in air at a VERY high rate of speed.

Do women (and men) REALLY still believe this? Who can a family be anything BUT a partnership?? Sheesh, if either one of us would try to 'rule the roost' there would be bloodhsed! :wow:

I won't be home so someone will have to post what happened...could be intersting.