Some districts in Massachusetts charge a fee for full day Kindergarten. Kindergarten isn't mandated so, in theory, the towns don't have to fund it at all.

It would be petty to link his Facebook account and the comments he's made there wouldn't it? Oh well, I'm petty.

I'm hopeful that she will be in about 10 years but she's still super young.

The obesity epidemic often comes up when people talk about helicopter parenting and kids not being allowed to play outside unsupervised. I don't think there's been an official campaign about it, though.

Any decent partner* is going to be there for the birth of their kid and do you really want the first time you see that to be in 3D?

9th grade biology. I crossed my legs so hard it hurt.

My sister-in-law taught herself calligraphy to address her own wedding invitations. When I got married she offered to address ours for us. She fought me hard on the titles. We had extensive conversations about how I think it's offensive to leave the woman's name off. We compromised and did Mrs. Husband's name for the…

That is actually incorrect. She should properly be addressed as Dr, too.

Can you imagine how "Guns don't kill people. People kill people," is going to sound to her for threat of her life? That poor child.

You're absolutely right, even if the charges didn't stick it would bring attention to it and help get a law passed.

The victim was an instructor who was participating in this insanity. It seems like child endangerment would be fitting, though.

Christina Hendricks has talked about being "not really interested in having children."

Emily has been in the top ten baby girl's names since 1991. It's just that most of them are still children so if you don't have or work with kids you're unlikely to run into them.

I suspect a lot of those people live in states that refused Medicaid expansion and are stuck in limbo as a result.

They can't (or won't) take your word for it because of liability. They also give pregnancy tests to straight women who have a 0% chance of being pregnant.

Why are people just taking his mother's word for it that he has always had a happy home to come back to? It's entirely possible that he was kicked out or was leaving an abusive situation. Mom isn't exactly going to admit she kicked her kid out to national media is she?

There are a bunch of roadside produce stands near me that run on the honor system most of them time (during peak times they usually have someone there to make change). The sign says the carton of peaches is $4 so you put $4 in the box and take your peaches. People must pay or they'd stop doing it.

You're being entirely too rational about an irrational belief. But since you asked...

Jeez, plenty of Americans pay that much a year in premiums and deductibles.

I personally maintain my belief in hell just so that I can believe that certain people go there. It's a lot easier to stomach the injustices of the world if you believe that people eventually get what's coming to them. Which is, of course, the whole appeal of religion/belief in an afterlife to begin with.