Just read the posts on this thread. Almost everyone is against accommodating a single mother. You really have no response, so right out of the feminist playbook, you start to try and discredit the author. Reason waved bye-bye to feminism a long time ago!

Are you denying that there is a "Mommy War"? Ironically this article is last in the line of several others on that topic. When I was an adjudicator on human rights complaints, a great deal of pregnancy discrimination claims involved female bosses penalizing pregnant women for choosing to have children.

In Canada a few college students were charged with "terrorism hoax" for a similar stunt against a local politician attempting to raise tuition costs. As much as I am ambivalent about abortion, this is probably not the route to achieve one's goals. When I was completing undergrad, I was on the student union executive…

The Blue Dollar must be above 10 to 1?!?!? I thought in 2014, the official rate was about 9 to 1??? I changed in a pile of ARS in Canada just before the devaluation and got a huge profit.

This would have made a very interesting debate for my second year philosophy class or a first-year law class. Clearly I can see the rationale in finding missing children. However, that is not the only factor at play. There are never absolutes (note the irony in that this sentence is an absolute in and of itself lol).…

The electronics is an interesting market in Argentina. We brought a pile of iPhones to Resistencia and made a small fortune. Funny you referenced lays and pringles lol ... That is really all they have unless you go to the Walmart in Santa Fe. Belize is sort of similar to Argentina in that they place extreme…

This is dumb, I agree. But if there is going to be a discussion of body image issues, everyone should be included, not just teenage girls. Boys have the same body image issues, albeit not trying to be skinny. Girls try to fit what they perceive to be appealing to the boys and vice versa. At the same time, why not look…

You don't want to play blue dollar games in Venezuela. Unlike in Argentina, Venezuela will take it seriously and you can expect to be jailed or pay one hell of a bribe.

Chile is remarkably modern and has more transparency. The issue with Uruguay is the cost of living and infrastructure. Outside Montevideo, accessing reliable internet or basic necessities is hit and miss, albeit Argentina has this issue too. A couple years back I remember racing down the northwestern highway, passing…

I assumed the earlier comment about US foreign policy triggered the troll accusation. That is where it came from.

Playing the troll card already? I just have a low opinion of US foreign policy along with a lot of other shit going in the US lol ... By that definition, the rest of the world is populated by trolls ;)

Uruguay is charming, especially the small communities you can get to from Buenos Aires. Chile is a good place too. Argentina is my favourite, but I am biased since I exploit the loopholes in currency exchange. Basically take a ferry from Buenos Aires to Uruguay, take out the max on your ATM in USD and bring it back…

How is it not obvious? The rationale behind banning skinny models is to "protect" girls and women from feeling bad about their bodies. The lowering of the bar in school sports is to protect boys (and girls) from feeling inadequate (i.e. being picked last for dodge ball lol). A school board in Scotland banned Father's…

My uncle was working for ICAO in the '80s. He was in Santiago, Chile and was invited to the Presidential Palace. He had been out partying the night before and was probably still half in the bag when he showed up with other delegates. An arm extended toward him, and he put his wet coat over it, assuming it was a porter…

Well your sentiments are known facts in Latin America! It isn't just the US, but all five permanent members of the UN Security Council who are predominately responsible for just about every war since the end of WWII. Because of the Cold War, US and Soviets spent decades having proxy wars, which resulted in arming…

Well the best analogy I can come up with is the fracking is akin to the US paying its Visa with its MasterCard. Interest rates will inevitably soar and we will see another late 2000s meltdown on crack. If there were a book on US fiscal, foreign, environmental and national security policy, it should be titled, "50…

Panama is a completely cluster-fuck which lasts to this day. I was mostly in Colon and made my way south to David. I have to say I love the Free Zone :D

We can haggle about what is "adequate." That is a matter of another discussion. But the private school is a good and reasonable example. The "best interests of the child" like any other idiom in law is not absolute. In your example, I would argue that it is reasonable to pull a child from the private school. Adequate…

It is not that the US has just become involved; they have always been there. Chavez was a real pain in the ass to the US, and now there is a toss-up given his followers are hopelessly fractured.

I just added her to facebook! She is hilarious. I would love to go out for drinks with her and rant all night about South American politics and how the US had been meddling for decades. Every tyrannical regime without exception in Central and South America received assistance directly or indirectly from the US.