...I’m very seriously considering leaving at this point. I’ve just witnessed too much to ever think a woman can be treated as an equal in this industry.

Yes! If your first reaction isn’t ‘YOU CREEP!’ followed by a kick in the dick, it’s basically your own fault for letting it go too far.

Plus he’s gay as a French horn, so it’s simultaneously very amusing and very frustrating that he’s a mostly party-line republican.

With every foster case, there is always a preference for placing a child with blood relatives. They may have used an unusual law to make it happen, but this is consistent with the foster program overall.

Me too. I don’t even have kids but I work a job that is not my dream to support myself. And if I had kids, I’d HAVE to work a steady job to support them. His exes don’t have the luxury to chase their dreams, they have kids to raise and support.

idk; personally, i dont think the article was that well written.

Yeah, I didn’t want to say it because I don’t like to be mean. But he’s... not a very good writer.

OK, the system sucks and taking away your driver’s license is destructive to your earning potential and unhelpful. But, like - if your kids lived with you full time, you’d have to find a way to make it work. As the mothers of those kids already do. Stop thinking of child support as something you will pay when you can,…

You’re a professional writer and you think the phrase is, “on the lamb?”

Raising children is inexplicitly hard. Imagine how hard it must be to have all these burdens AND have your children live with you full-time as a single parent. I’d love to read an article by your ex to hear about her trials as a single mother raising 3 children on one income, how she manages childcare issues, making…

I appreciate hearing a different perspective on a child-support case. I admit it was hard to dig up any sympathy for this particular situation, though—this is a non-custodial parent who lives in a place that he describes as not great for his barely-paid profession. If I read correctly, he also doesn’t live near in…

Yup, raising kids is very expensive and very hard.

Me, as a child-support paying divorced mom with 50/50 physical custody, who still buys school uniforms and new shoes and haircuts for my kids because my ex-husband won’t.

I’m probably being a huge asshole but I have trouble understanding how the non-custodial parents not paying child support are the victims here.

What'd I'd like to know is how the mothers of your children were keeping it together all this time.

Get a real fucking job. Better yet, get two! You have the time because your kids don’t live with you!. You are a grown ass man, and the fact that you call yourself a writer does not excuse you from being responsible for the lives you created.

I think I would rather subject my self to experimental torture than discuss sexual partners with my mom. One time, she tried to talk to me about the great sex she was having with her boyfriend before I had to shut her down promptly and remind her that this is not, and never will be, the kind of relationship we have. I…

Butts aren’t sacred

Stair daggers would encourage more elevator use.

She sounds sane and delightful. We do not choose our parents.