I have tons of empathy. For the children. Hard stop.

I’m starting to feel like we’re being trolled here. In every instance, CPS has acted responsibly to a bunch of party girls who weren’t ready to have children. Comparative disparate treatment happens all throughout the system but somehow this series was unable to find men and women who were willing to tell their…

Actually the staff at Jezebel introduced the series as a way to show CPS going overboard, and intervening when they shouldn’t.

Well, it has been illuminating, just not in the way I think the editors intended.

Child (now adult) of a parent who had a CPS investigation, here.

This series has failed in its premise, full stop.

Our eldest daughter has struggled with serious addiction issues for the past 6 years- heroin.

Five years ago, when my daughter turned 9, we had a birthday party for her at our apartment complex’s pool. We rented out the clubhouse for cake and punch and pizza, but the pool remained open to all the residents.

This again?! Whenever she was in the right, CPS didn’t falsely accuse her of anything and when she was in the wrong, they got involved, I’m not seeing the problem here. After reading this series I actually have a lot more respect and trust in CPS than I used to.

This post, the last in the series

Oh god not this again. Are we making this a weekly thing now? So far the only mother I have had any sympathy for was the one whose friend/babysitter dropped the kid and didn’t tell her.

Yeah, the whole reaction to Hugh Hefner made me feel like I’d stepped through the looking glass, and was in this twisted alternate reality. I just couldn’t process all the posts about how great he was for feminism and free speech etc. Like...wot?!

Yes. My BEST FRIEND didn’t support me when I was sexually harassed at work. I’ve never brought it up with her again, and she’s completely ignored my #metoo story and all my posts on the subject, even though she’s usually super active on social media. I have no idea how to handle it, and it breaks my heart. I don’t…

It is good that women (and men) are sharing their stories and hammering home what an incredibly widespread issue this is; it would be better if there were some second step and if those same women and men and their allies could activate this huge group of people toward some end.

Watching from the sidelines (I’m not on social media, but of course #MeToo), this seems like one hour after it launched, it was just a slumber party of where everyone was just sharing “the worst thing that ever happened to ME”. Cathartic, but hollow. Most social media-based movements are hollow. It’s too convenient to…

My fb feed has been full of me toos.

Nothing will come of it. It will change nothing.

IMO, it would be more helpful to work on empowering victims, via promising that they will be believed and that they will be supported. #IWill doesn’t do anything to make your employee feel more confident that they will not be re-victimized by an HR department, or that people won’t gossip about her and think she is a…

Yep, that is exactly my first interpretation before I read the article. Given that most people don’t do their due diligence, it seems like a bad choice of hashtag.

men responding with #IWILL sounds like a threat of sexual harassment.