I’m a juvenile dependency attorney (“parent’s-side”) in California. This sort of thing happens in our progressive, civilized society all the time. On good cases, my client will have a lot of support from family who are familiar with Mom’s disability and are around to help her out. But even then, the courts sure do…

Because social workers have big case loads and don’t have the time to do more than one a week per case.

After Dana’s placement, Sara was initially allowed to see her daughter for one hour each week with the brief help of her own mother and the supervision of a social worker.

Calm down there, Satan.

Indeed. Sloths have barely any muscle mass and so exertion isn’t really their thing. (S)he was trying to climb up a short metal pole to shelter so I guess they weren’t around when the brains were being given out either.

Dammit I thought that was a gif and kept waiting for it to move!

What..........can I..........do...........for you.........today?

Of course you can build an immunity to polio. That’s exactly what the body’s response to the polio vaccine is.

There was a whooping cough outbreak a couple years ago while I was pregnant. I wasn’t able to get the full vaccination for this as a kid because of a reaction. I was absolutely terrified to go out of the house. When I hit my 2nd trimester and was able to get inoculated I felt so much better. It was amazing how much…

Well I do believe kids need to build their immune system. This can be achieved by playing in dirt, being sick from time to time, but vaccines are there to help. If I have kids, I will vaccinate. Sorry, you can't build an immunity to polio.

Same. I love them, and I am shocked at how their personal beliefs are shaking my affection for them. I don’t want to hear shit about homeopathy, you privileged morons, but my longlasting affection is being tested!

You deserve better friends.

Stop being friends with those morons.

This all happened in my neighborhood and started before my child could be vaccinated. Fuck all of these people who show up on the playground with kids with runny noses and rashes and proudly tell everyone their kids are unvaccinated and “building their immune systems.”

I have some friends that are anti and I hate it. They're also pretty anti-science and western med so it's hard to even have a conversation about it. And the fact is that our health care system is fucked up and pharmaceutical companies are hugely profitable, lobbyists, and largely don't care about us. So while I hate…

This was my thought. But he may also be mentally ill.

Okay but if you were really high and suddenly a fucking milkshake with a PIECE OF CAKE ON TOP appears like magic are you going to say no? Because I saw that article and mentally saved it to my “things to experience while fucked up” goals list

Yeah, I lived on a big campus where fights and drug addled behavior was normal. Campus cop actually stopped me from fighting a kid who attacked me in one instance, and arrested a kid who broke into my dorm and attacked me and my suitemate because he was drunk and forgot where he was. City cops treated us like garbage,…

The size? I grew up in a university was bigger than the town. It was in. Why should the city (not wealthy) have to pay to handle mostly rambunctious college kids from a very wealthy university? Plus, a lot of those frat boys would be in jail if they city handled it. The universities do tend to have a different set of…