[Shaelyn]

I always thought this forum was for both...anyone that has an interest in japan or japanese culture in general, at the exclusion of neither anime-lovers nor older people with different interests relating to japan. there's a lot of teens interested in anime and games, so that's probably going to end up being the bigger draw.

there is a forum specific for living in japan...if you'd like to talk about japanese family life and stuff like that, you can post it there. if you'd like to talk about regular family life or other stuff in the general forum, then just post it - the general forum is the melting pot for everything, it's not just for the word games and adoption threads and other stuff. someone else may be interested in the same stuff you are, so post what you want to discuss. we're not all young'uns.