And my job being married is to get my husband and my [seven] kids to heaven with me.

I volunteer to be the one friend responsible for never letting her glass be empty and validating her hotness/general superiority while making cradle-robbing jokes.

I remember watching a documentary many years ago - as in, probably around the time this girl was born (geez I’m old) - about a woman in California who started a cemetery for babies who died like this. There was a local case, she arranged the burial for that baby, then the police just started bringing her other babies…

Because I am going to keep saying it until this bullshit stops:

Both parties needed to notify the court to seal the records. Cosby’s lawyers did but Constand’s didn’t leaving the records open. It was a violation of the agreement. How severe? Usually confidentiality agreements have clauses to say what happens if information gets out. Usually steep fines and sometimes it voids the…

But if they can’t pay for a lawyer to sort it out, then it’s a problem. It’s the same thing with a divorce. Getting the information on hidden income, where the money is stashed, even actual income, is a huge, sometimes years lasting, issue. Employers will even help employees hide their income. Until that money is…

I’m a trained DV advocate and I have had gay male clients. Those without means (male or female) for a restraining order could apply to the DOVE program for a free lawyer. The larger issue was divorce and custody which requires more legal work.

And the need for free legal representation for victims of domestic violence isn’t even limited to victims in low-income families. A lot of abuse uses economic control—meaning even if the family is rich the victim themselves will be poor. Some domestic violence agencies (I’m not sure how many) that have income…

Somehow I miss the days of ‘selling out is bad!!’ that us late gen-x’ers grew up in.

Didn’t even read the rest of the nominations because I am so excited Tatiana Maslany is in the running!

same. i had a panic attack today.

At roundtables, this one woman who developed our particular Theory of Change sat at the head, and she carried with her a sort of dominance. Her rhetoric was accepted as the central rhetoric. Throughout time, the rest of us who worked with her stopped believing in our value as organizers. Some of us became passive and…

There was definitely a This American Life segment on this topic. It was specifically giving money to criminals though. Act 2 of this episode: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives…

This is awesome and so accurate. The popularity of research into “resilience” has gotten a ton of traction in recent years, but the truth is it shakes out to be another way to blame cycles of poverty on impoverished individuals rather than the institutions and power dynamics holding them back in the first place.

Everything about him reminds me of a King’s Hawaiian sweet roll, but in an endearing way.

I’m not siding with the mother—I know nothing about her. I do know that the father is such a piece of shit, and cares so little about his children, that he’d rather they spend their entire childhoods incarcerated than be allowed to choose not to see him.

But don’t you know? Children (like women!) exist as rewards for adult men who have “earned” their time and affection, and not as beings unto themselves with needs and desires and agency!