Waving from a couple with both ADHD and from a culture with a polychronic perception of time! 

*waves in ADHD, undiagnosed until mid-thirties*

What an evil way to frame executive dysfunction. Shithead.

“Sit down next to me and take your talking to”?

We, and I cannot stress this enough, are in the darkest timeline.

She also said the sheriff’s department performed welfare checks on Stauffer’s four biological children, Kova, Jaka, Radley and Onyx, and interviewed the couple on June 4. They found no signs of abuse.

It’s hard to believe she had much regret about the rehoming when, at the time, she apparently carried on making her dopey videos about Bedtime Routines! or We Wore Silly Hats! or whatever pablum she produced. Where’s the humility? How are you holding yourself up as a cutesy, aspirational mommyblogger to emulate when…

In a year of horrible news stories, this one still manages to stand out. As a mom of an autistic child, it is particularly rage inducing. 

I think they could have easily covered the costs of adoption w/the ads - if you can get in good with mommy stuff, there is BIG money there (international adoption is expensive, but from Googling and my general sense of it, $40,000 seems like the upper limit there. I would imagine they could easily be hitting $100,000…

That’s not as inclusive as you think it is. The gestational parent isn’t always the person who raises the child.

I thought the same thing, so I looked it up. Apparently, in the UK you don’t amend birth certificates in the case of adoption, like in the US. Instead the child is issued an adoption certificate and the birth certificate remains unchanged. At first, I was wondering why just asking for an amended birth certificate was…

The world is terribly overpopulated, countries like the U.K. have politicians (and their supporters) who don’t want to let anyone else in, and we are supposed to be worried about sperm counts?

What the fuck does it matter what they’re fucking wearing?

There are very clearly laces on Schiff’s shoes. Those aren’t loafers. If I can’t trust Jezebel to identify shoes correctly, what can I trust?

not to be persnickety, but the educator in me has to pipe up: sperm travel through the prostate gland during ejaculation, but it doesn’t hang out in there - so probably they wouldn’t be extracting it from the prostate - more likely from the testes.

As a donor conceived person - I hope your clinic is listening to the perspectives of the offspring that come into the world with no say in these contracts, often searching for our family connections, dozens of half-siblings, ethnicity and health history through expensive DNA tests. Having a donor who is passed before…

This is deeply gross and creepy. Let’s take a vote among donor sperm-conceived children and see what their view is, because ultimately those are the people will be most affected by having dead donor sperm.

Hasn’t this already been tied to environmental factors though? As in, IVF may be required in the future but really we need to start looking at what’s going on in our environment so that men and women aren’t killing their children’s testosterone level before they leave the womb?

Yea I’m all for people having choice in their lives but I’m not sure why lawmakers don’t think men have choices.

Like - yes, you do not need to hook up with some guy you don’t want to to have kids. No, guys do not need to give up the goods because someone wants to have children just not with a partner.

I wonder how to that would work in the new world of DNA ancestry tests though? Even if an anonymity clause is in place, a child of a donor can still purchase an Ancestry.com or 23 and Me test and choose to look up DNA relatives. If any of the donor’s extended family have taken these tests and agreed to look up DNA…