Yeah, that really didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, either. Good to know that you can run for state delegate before you can buy cigarettes or porn.

Doubtful, she's probably going to end up at Liberty or one of those hardline Christian Colleges.

Gonna point out that for some women no, it wasn't a choice. For me it wasn't a choice. I had no friends, no access to any resources for health care much less reproductive services...not even a car to drive the remote 60 miles to a decent city with a clinic. Just a controlling, abusive man who got me pregnant and told…

The psychologist I work with is pretty good and I don't think anyone I have at the moment is misdiagnosed, but I do have a couple that are so mild that they really don't need much remediation. It's a spectrum, after all. But my poor dyscalculia student. It's a particular problem because her private school has an…

I actually do regret having them and it feels horrible to admit, especially when no one else in my world has ever admitted it to me. I will say this, though: my oldest will be 15 in a couple of weeks and man, he is actually a pleasure to be around. As in, I genuinely enjoy his company and don't in any way feel like…

Not that it matters, but I have 3.

Not a grump. Certainly not a misanthrope. I like humankind for the most part, but I just don't want kids of my own. (At the moment, but I'm currently not in a relationship and I have no desire to do the kid thing on my own.) I have two wonderful nieces that I love more than life itself and am constantly amazed at…

You have to be really Naive to believe that every woman have a kid by choice, social pressure, family pressure, religion pressure play a big part in our wishes or non wishes for kid.

Well, it's not always a choice.

The one about the parent hating their son could have been written by my father. He was so hell-bent on not having a girl, he made my mother have an abortion. Twice. When she found out she was having me, she hid my gender until the day I was born hoping he'd come around. He didn't.

I knew it! Reproduction is a trap encouraged only by the most primitive parts of the brain.

Honestly most parents I know IRL, say this stuff to me all the time. That they love their kids, but if they could take it back.... When we tell them we don't want kids, they say, "Good... DON'T DO IT!".

Boo hoo. He might have committed suicide because he destroyed his career. He might of committed suicide because of the humiliation. Who cares? Are we supposed to change consent laws to accommodate the feelings of the perpetrators? That's some offensive shit right there. A lot of rape victims are told they should…

Sorry, you wrote the comment and now your suffering must go on forever.

Brain development:

I read the whole comment. And I told you it was off-topic. You insist it's on-topic because you made a series of false assumptions: that the age of consent in Texas was 18; that the guy killed himself to avoid being charged with statutory rape; that there is no other reason to kill yourself than to avoid the sex…

But that's the whole point. You used this case to suggest lowering the age of consent. If the age of consent was 14 these would still have been crimes because teachers can't fuck their students. Period. So it really wouldn't matter what the age of consent was.

You don't see a level of maturity difference between a 17 year old and a 25 year old??? What the hell? At 17, I was a freshman in college (most people are seniors in high school, though), I lived with my parents when not at school, I had no car, I still could get in trouble with my parents, I couldn't drink legally,…

There's an 11 year age difference between a 24 year old and a 35 year old. There's a 5-6 year difference between a 17 and a 23 year old. That's why its a big difference in your point.

Well, no, that's not really true. Our brains are still very much developing in our late teens, but the rate of development slows down in the early twenties. Now that I'm 25 and my brother is 33, we are at much more similar maturity levels, and get along much more naturally with one another's friends, then when I was…