Friends of mine in a similar scenario chose to use wife’s last name for both of them since her family was supportive and kind and that is who they wanted to emulate, not his side which had a lot of issues.

I am surprised by this (but I am genX). Most people have started their career by 30, have a passport, and have a female friend who has gone through a divorce and is somewhat pissed that they have to do *more* paperwork to get their name back (especially when there are no kids involved). I just assumed the longer…

My kids have my husband’s last name. Mine is very long and absolutely not hyphen-friendly. I didn’t feel strongly about passing my name on as I have brothers who now have kids and on my husband’s side we have the only boys. My decision to not change was because I was 30 when I married, have an unusual last name and…

Lazy brides unite! I am curious though, our honeymoon required a passport for travel, how does that work if you *just* got married and changed your name? I didn’t bother googling it then (so much else to deal with when planning a wedding) and hence, 10 years later, still never changed my name.

Hah. In my case, my in-laws didn’t care, but my parents side of the family all uses my husband’s last name when addressing me (by mail). I didn’t legally change mine for professional reasons (and not wanting to do the paperwork for new passport as we were travelling for the honeymoon) but when introduced to my kids…

We usually tell our boys “hugs or high-fives” when we leave friend’s or relative’s so that it is always their choice and before the other adult can ask for a hug. They switch up between the two all the time.

Binary for 8 is 1000, so if dark circle indicates a 1 and empty indicates a 0, you get 8. B is hex for 11

Go on now.

So sorry about your brother. As someone who always feels compelled to occasionally check on missing persons websites on the very slim chance that I could be of help, I initially thought her fame would help as so few cases get enough media attention. But now that he has been located I hope she is granted her wish for…

It is safe to say that whatever they decide to sue for, they will get and they will have enough of a financial settlement to pursue IVF if they aren’t completely traumatized.

I absolutely did not imply that this is at all like a normal planned surrogacy except to explain why the OP would indicate that if the woman who is carrying the pregnancy decided to turn the baby over to the biological parents, they would in return offer her some financial compensation.

I don’t think that is unusual since she effectively would be acting as a surrogate and they are generally financially reimbursed. That said, I really have no idea how this situation can easily be worked out.

If you really want your head to explode, read up on Cecil Jacobson or Thomas Lippert. I have no idea in these cases how you can come up with an ethical or correct solution. I think I would have given the child to the genetic parents knowing that they were in the same struggle, but that is so easy to say when you are…

I have never consumed bear of any kind, but have extended family that hunt black bear (and donate the meat as they don’t like it that much, but it is consumed). Also when I was in Alaska I spoke with a ranger who told us that black bear is actually decent but no one eats grizzly. That seems to be backed up on this…

People do eat black bear, but grizzly hunting is purely for the “trophy”.

As you are clearly an expert in internet law, what is the name of the law where no matter what symptoms you google, there is always a website to point out that it might be cancer?

It is a real disease, but since there is not any accurate way to test for it and there is a huge variety in the symptoms, many people can latch onto the diagnosis. Kind of like how many people without Celiac’s disease now need to be gluten free.

Every since I read a few articles about Tim McVeigh’s father, I find I have sympathy with the parents/family. Obviously there are some cases where monster parents created or encouraged monsters, but It is so terrifying to think that these normal people who tried to be good parents, ended up with children who commit…

That was my takeaway too. I had a circle of friends where, two started dating and within a month it was clear that they were the worst match on the face of God’s green earth. They got into a completely insane shouting match in the dead of night on a camping trip and I truly didn’t even recognize either of their voices…

I have witnessed abusive females in relationships only a few times and it was horrible. One was in high school and at a party she was on her boyfriend’s back punching him until he fell over with her and she then said she will take photos of the bruises and go to the police. She also sucker punched my friend (female)…