So maybe in your case that works. Me, I'm often running errands or elsewhere when my kids are at practices, rehearsals, lessons, etc. and I'm not glued to my SO's hip so we wouldn't necessarily be in the same place.

Did you take the same stance for other required school supplies, like pencils, notebooks, a graphing calculator, compass, etc.?

$600?! Who on earth pays that for a phone? Answer: no one. And $80/month? Only if you don't have anyone else on the family using a phone/data. Alone, my phone is $130/month. With 2 additional phones, it's $150/month. The phones themselves (iPhones, but not the latest) cost me $100 for the two (one was new, one a…

I do, but my ex doesn't.

My kids' smartphones each cost me an extra $10/month. We share the data, and I got their phones for either nominal cost or free (by passing mine on when I upgraded). Not that expensive.

I have my children 1/2 time, so there are days when I don't see them, but I am ALWAYS their mom. They have phones so they can reach me by phone or text at any time - when someone's not there to pick them up, to ask me to take them done thing they forgot, to call me in the middle if the night if they can't sleep, or…

That looks pretty typical. Is rape defined as "actual" inter course, or does oral/digital sex fall under that legal definition in MO as well?

Well, no, because if she said "yes, yes," it wouldn't be an assault. Statutory rape, maybe, if that's what happened, but since the key point is consent, it is important she did not.

Or, channel your energy to working with kids local to you. You could impact far more.

I hope you also pound in his head that getting wasted at 11-16 is disgusting and wrong so he shouldn't do that, either.

I have one of those from her for holiday prep/planning. I tore the pages out of a magazine 15 years ago. Not once have I accomplished 1/3 of it on her timeframe. And yet, I still keep those pages, evidently to remind me of my failure in life.

On the bra point - precisely. When I was younger (always been a 32-34 C), I wore unpadded because I didn't want to look bustier than I was. As I got older (early/mid-30s) I came to appreciate the support, lift and shaping of a padded thing. And god, yes, the last time I made the mistake of wearing an unpadded one…

Certainly not for free, and never, ever on something on sale. You can spend the cost of the item again on alterations, which, given that women's clothes (and shoes) are not, like men's items, built to last, makes little sense.

High heels make my legs look better, make me taller (useful in a corporate setting), and make me feel good.

I have a garage full of tools AND a closet full of shoes.

Has Mushnick responded or followed up at all on his hit-piece?

Any criminal who pays taxes does pay for police protection. As does any non-criminal. I've no problem with an actual offender being billed an extraordinarily de minimis amount toward their own care and feeding. It's a minor penalty. They are being punished for their crime, not, in the specific instance, for merely…

Nope; paying for their meals is part of the debt, not an unrelated add-on.

Wow, that is intense. I'm of mixed feelings about it all, but I would never want to find out too late that my girls were endangering themselves.

They caused the injury. Contributing toward the resources required to house and feed their sorry asses is in effect a fine. Too bad.