I suppose we'll have to add "Parenting While Black" to the list of offenses that warrant having your whole life turned upside down.

It must be terrible for black parents to have to tell their children "Even if you're unarmed, even if you're well-behaved, even if you do everything right, there is still a chance that a white police officer will murder you in the street with your hands up."

Even our towels shall not save us from this one.

Uhhh, it's not always easy to abort just one child, if you're carrying twins. And what if they hadn't known she was carrying a Down's baby? Would they have shown up, looked at the kid and said "uh uh, we're not taking him?" That's like giving birth to twins, and deciding to keep just one of them. Stupid, Aussie,…

Honestly, I feel like surrogacy should be outlawed entirely.

I absolutely can expect the couple who created this child to take responsibility for him. He is their son. We have a term for people who do what they are doing: dead beat parents. Men do it all the time- I'm sure you've heard if MRAs who want to be able to force women to abort or not pay child support. Refusing to…

In an ideal world all surrogates would go over this stuff, but seeing as the woman was in debt she may have been made to feel (from the unscrupulous agent) like she was "lucky" to get this contract. Thailand is a country where sex work and human trafficking is endemic - women have few rights over their bodies, and she…

"...due to a catastrophic birth defect."

I agree. Your home country sounds more progressive and where abortion could be sought if need be. Unfortunately, for this Thai woman, Oz parents latched onto her because it's no doubt cheaper and then bailed when they found their child had DS despite stranding the poor woman in a country where abortion is illegal.

Superior use of "philosophizes." I never use it in writing because I am utterly unable to pronounce it, even when sober.

Andi has said she didn't know who she was going to pick until the end and expressed doubts about both men throughout the series. Don't believe her if you don't want to, but I'd argue that many people believe that having sex with someone is a pretty good way of getting to know them and deciding whether you'd be…

I know that, maybe my first comment's writing was not clear. I kinda suck at typing. The fact that any company with billion of dollars in sales can call itself a charity is a disgrace. Maybe it bothers me more then it does others as I sometimes ring bells for the Salvation Army.

I watched Olberman's rant yesterday... on Cosmo's site funnily enough. He had me in tears halfway through.

I have thought since Michael Vick that there should be zero tolerance for felons in football, PERIOD. An NFL career (or any professional sports career)should be a privilege, easily lost for fucking up! There are THOUSANDS of great players waiting in the wings for these team positions, and they should be plugged in…

Yeah, I found the letter off-putting. Maybe don't criticize the spending habits of those whom you'd like to request money from.

Make no mistake, we certainly benefitted from the tradition of wedding presents/registries — we were living with chipped bowls, mismatched flatware, etc. I just think it's less universally applicable than it was in, say, the 1930s. I think we should be more open to the idea of giving cash in situations where it seems…

I'm actually one of the lucky ones, too, because I get three paid months off. That's super -generous, by American standards...legally, the leave doesn't have to be paid.

Yes! It would even help our unemployment problem - women take leave, temp positions open up, temps get experience and pay, woman gets leave, business maintained coverage. It's win-win, but for the anti-maternity shortsightedness we're fighting against.

You're right - it's articles like this that drive wedges between men and women. The ladies here are just all getting ginned up over nothing - it's not like hiring discrimination and miserable maternity leave policies aren't endemic in American businesses. If we just didn't mention it, everything would be hunky-dory.