The father was not the legally appointed guardian. The kids refused to go have lunch with him and spend time with, which surprise surprise, they are ALLOWED TO DO. When a 15 year old kid says he doesn’t want to go with his dad cause he saw him beat his mother, yeah I’m going to go ahead and assume he’s not a fucking…

soooooo many butthurt mras crawled out of their various internet basements to get to these threads and champion the virtue of Shit Dads Everywhere.

How do you know the mom poisoned the kids against the dad? The transcript states that the mom made an “impassioned plea” to the kids to comply w/ the court order and try to have a relationship w/ their dad. It’s just as likely that these kids hate their dad because he’s an abusive piece of shit and there was no…

I am glad you know the facts of the case so well. The mother could be pushing the children to act this way, but you have little to base that on other than an off-the-wall judge saying it is so. Do you really trust this judge’s assessment based upon her dealings with the children? I don’t.

His son saw his own father abusing the mother. The kid has a right to not want to be around that. Just because someone does the biological minimum to create a child does not mean the child is in any way indebted to the parent if the parent ends up being a shithead.

I bet he’ll go to his grave claiming she “poisoned” the kids against him instead of , you know, owning his shit.

Him leaving for 2 weeks out of the country while they are in detention? Him not fighting this?

Not to mention telling the kid “well your father was never charged with anything, so tough luck, you must be lying about the abuse” is INSANE. In family domestic cases reports of abuse and assault can go unreported for years out of fear of the abusers (or even to protect them in some cases) To use the fact that he was…

This hits too close to home. It’s exactly why my mom has put off going through her divorce until my little sister and I weren’t children. My “father” and his friends/relatives all think my mom has brainwashed us against him, when really we know that he’s a cheating piece of shit verging on abusive and we don’t want to…

Aunt May is, and has always been, 85. Hollywood refuses to cast 40-year-old-women as the wives of 50-year-old men because “that’s too old” (remember that? last month?). They’ve been ramping up the “throw women away pat their expiration date” problems, and this? Marisa TOmei is 50. In Hollywood terms, she might as well…

Actually, when deconstructed, the transaction is far simpler: I’m paying him money to cook food that I will then consume. He can judge me all he wants, as long as the meat on my plate looks like I envisioned it when I placed the order. I am not doing it out of spite or to purposely “offend” him with my “rudeness”. I…

Because boys have it so hard in the engineering world. This type of discouragement is exactly why girls end up abandoning STEM interests around 11 or 12 years old.

“Why should he? He didn’t know those people”

Because Superman isn’t fucking Ayn Rand.

Insert the word “black” where the word “homosexual” appears in these kinds of cases, and suddenly you’ll realize how insanely stupid your question is.

If $135,000 seems like a lot just for emotional damages, it is worth noting that the baker did not just refuse them service. She also published the couple’s names and home address on the Internet and encouraged people to harass them. So there was much more emotional damage than just refusing them service.

As someone living in Oregon: I am completely ok with this fine. If this bakery had declined service to someone based upon race we would not be concerned that $135K is too high to send a message.

She was diagnosed with brain cancer by a fake doctor but managed to get real chemotherapy for this condition? Sounds likely.

I’m tired of people telling me what words I can and can’t use at work. I’ve recently made a conscious effort to stop saying “sorry” for innocuous stuff, and people have commented that I come across as “terse” or “cold.” But if I say “sorry” for the innocuous stuff, then people would think I’m weak. So what the hell am…

Red flags went off for me when they mentioned the elementary schools asking her to leave. I’ve student taught and had student teachers in my school and if you as an advisor are more than a fly on the wall of the classroom, then that’s a big issue.