I think it’s really bad for working parents, actually. I’m serious when I ask would we blame her if she chose to return to work willingly? It seems like she’s insinuating that any parent who chooses to do so is risking the life of their kid. This is a terrible tragedy but not related to the family leave issue at all.

Exactly. At 3 months I was dying to get back into the workforce. All the questions of “how did you leave your baby??!?!!?!” only served to make me feel like there was something wrong with me for not wanting to be attached to my baby 24/7.

Not to mention that it suggests that parents who choose to go back to work at or even before 3 months (even when more leave is available) are deliberately playing Russian Roulette with their kid’s life.

I’m sorry , and sorry for her loss, but I hate that emotionnal approach. Babies die of sudden death, and choke, and the alternative is not have each and every parents watch them till they are six. I’m sure there is a problem with providing enough quality daycare, for poor people that need it the most, specially, as it…

This article is ridiculous. I am all for paid family leave, but the idea that this baby died because his parents had to go back to work is resorting to the worst sort of fear mongering. Many parents choose to go back to work because they want to. Would this mother still have the same reaction if she wanted to be at…

Main point check. America needs to get with the rest of the developed world on paid family leave slash parental care. All those lobbying groups with ‘family’ in their name should get over gay people for just one brief moment and fight for actual family issues like this one.

This is tragic of course but I really hate the whole “You’re leaving your baby with STRANGERS!!!” Um... no my husband and I actually visited the daycare, met the caregivers and did our research on whether or not the facility was licensed/the policies they follow. My daughter is now 2. She loves her caregivers. They…

You’re stupid. Switzerland has no carrying laws and people are not allowed to go around with guns anyway. The only civilians in switzerland allowed to carry are people working in security related jobs and getting a concealed carry permit is almost impossible.

‘not racist at all but..’

This response is even more enraging, where the same professor lectures young, black men and women threatened with violence about standing up to bullies.

I don’t think it’s “normal” or “decent” to try to get someone drunker than they might want to be without their knowledge. Not a “funny prank” to play on a potentially pregnant woman, or someone on medication, or the night’s designated driver...

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Yeah I don’t have a problem with this. Beyond some feeling that the stuff I buy at Sephora is better quality (possibly debatable but I haven’t had nearly the same luck with drugstore foundation or lipstick), I pay for the experience. I’ll pay $20 for lipstick if I know 100% before I leave the store that I’ll love it…

Once the football team joined the protests, you know it was over for him. He knew it was over for him. He could ignore race issues and sexual assault, even firearms on campus, but alumni and donors will not allow him to fuck with their football.

Ironically by saying,“I can give you an answer, and I’m sure it will be a wrong answer.” Tim Wolfe was 100% correct.

EXACTLY. MY first thought was ‘NO ONE WILL GET MY COIN JARS!’ but like, do i melt down all the change into a big middle finger or make thousands of wishes that people never touch my goddamn change?

“America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians (like George Washington, for instance) but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, innovation and that’s what will get us on the right track now,”

Found the vegan!

Also, Prince of Penzance’s jockey, Michelle Payne, was the first woman jockey to win that particular race, and sounds like a total badass.