Even more than Denna, I’d love to see something written from Elodin’s POV. Or Devi. Or Fela. One of the criticisms I’ve seen repeatedly about these books is that every character is more interesting than Kvothe. While I don’t quite agree with that, there are moments when I really wish Rothfuss would give us more of…

I live in Houston, Texas. I heard our mayor, Annise Parker, on NPR today talking about how we have finally cleared the backlog of rape kits in this city. There were years of untested rape kits, just sitting around. Years and years and years of them. It took major effort on the part of our mayor to push this through.…

Yeah. He is a wonderful person, and pretty much the last remaining late-term provider in my area. Google Dr. Karpen of Houston. He's a fucking hero.

I’m lucky I live in Houston and had access at all. As it was, it cost $2100 out of pocket for the procedure, which spanned three days. Oh, my provider was shot by an anti-choice nut in a parking garage, in the 90s.

I can't chill. I just can't. I had one of the last legal 20+ week abortions in Texas.

I had one at 21 weeks. Two false negative pregnancy tests. I had a toddler who was still nursing (and therefore no menstrual cycle), and had just fled my ex because of domestic violence.

You know, despite the state of public education and the multiple abuses against teachers, this makes me very proud of my workplace. My principal has hired more than one visibly pregnant (even third trimester) teachers, without hesitation. She figures (and correctly, I might add) that the best candidate is the best…

You haven’t read enough about parental alienation. I have, as I’m being accused of it. Parental alienation is not a syndrome. The man who introduced the term and fought for it to be classified as a syndrome was Gardner, a defender of NAMBLA, a misogynist, and a disturbed individual who committed suicide by slicing his…

Are you fucking kidding me? My ex didn’t pay child support for more than two years after abandoning our son and me and fleeing to another state to avoid a CPS investigation. He just started filing motions to have more access to the child he neglected and endangered, and family court is bending over backwards to give…

About #2, no. This is a common myth. Women get custody 80% of the time, but this figure is because most of the time, men don’t seek custody. However, in cases where they do, they are much more likely to get it.

Hi. I’m Appalachian. Specifically, from West Virginia. My ancestors were the earliest settlers, my more recent family members coal miners who fought in the mining wars.

I seem to look closest to a Clear Spring, though none of them suit me perfectly.

In addition to all this, I think sometimes people need to do some serious introspection on what kind of pet owner they really are, and how it affects their animals. I was in a relationship last year and when it ended, his two dogs were a major factor and eventually would have been THE deal-breaker, I think.

We must be cousins or something. I have the same problem with my skin tone. I'm a natural blonde, blue-eyed, and very pale, so everyone immediately says COOL COLORS, or, even worse, COOL PASTELS FOR ALL BLUE-EYED BLONDES! Cool pastels make my skin look gray and zombie-like. Overly warm colors make me look like a…

I believe your attorney is wrong (or, rather, not completely right). It really doesn't matter if a state recognizes it or not— what matters is the individual judge and what they care about. I live in a huge metropolitan area. There are several family courts. What happens in one court can be completely opposite of what…

Yes. There is an infamous book oft-referenced by MRA types. "Screw the Bitch: Divorce Tactics for Men." There are several forums and MRA groups online where they exchange info on how to continue abusing their exes via the court system.

From what I can tell, the parent who loses in family court is the non-abuser. Because a protective parent has a point at which they'll flinch, and they actually care about the best interests of the child. An abuser just wants to get to their target.

The worst is when the fucking POLICE do it. I work at a public school and our campus police officer asked me what I had done to "set him off."

Everyone thinks they know how things work in family court. I know I thought so. I was dead fucking wrong.

When I fled my abuser with my small child, he took all our savings. He squatted in my home for weeks, then finally took off to another state, leaving piles of bills. I filed in court to protect our child (I needed custody settled so that he couldn't take him and run). He didn't show up for the hearings. This cost me…