Even non-profits have to be run, to some degree, like a business. They need revenue, they need a budget, they need an organizational structure. Just because they don’t operate on a model of profit doesn’t mean they don’t have to be worried about the bottom line and, ultimately, closure. When a non-profit is facing…

This might work for some people, but I personally worked until the day I delivered my first 2. And with my third I was home with the older two. I just don’t see people being able to put their responsibilities on hold for what could be a several week wait. Maternity leave, even if available, is short enough in this…

This is a nonprofit hospital network though. They AREN’T treating it like a business. Rural hospitals are just a mad complicated problem.

When you are purposely trying to get pregnant, seeing other folks get pregnant without trying fucks with your head. Because purposely getting pregnant can take some work. You take fertility tests everyday to see when the optimal time to fuck is, you have to purposely reduce your anxiety levels and that just reminds…

My thoughts exactly. Plus, is the Fertility Industrial Complex a thing? Or is it just some word salad Dunham made up?

I have always been very meh dgaf about Dunham, but for some reason, her saying people were triggered makes me hate her.

I’m prepared to get shit for this, but 20 is far too young to have a child. Hell, your damn brain doesn’t fully develop until 25. Yes, she’s rich, which will give the child an imporant leg up in the world.

Lena Dunham said (via Twitter) that some of her friends were “triggered” by Kylie’s pregnancy? Why? What does that even mean? Why would one person care so much about the uterine occupancy status of a person they don’t even know?

Reproductive Coercion is not cute, guy. This girl might wake up in a year and realize she married a controlling psycho. This is like the beginning of a story about a guy who kills his family because they lady breaks up with him.

Or he already had damage at that point. The point kinda is that right now, we don’t know. Was he an asshole because his brain was swiss cheese, or was he already an asshole and his brain being swiss cheese worse?

No, of course not. The NFL games are most easily found, of course, and a lot of the focus on NFL players with CTE has been on guys with longer careers (Mike Webster, Seau, etc). Hernandez only played 3 years.

He only played in 44 career games and still had severe CTE. The NFL isn’t going to like this one bit.

I have also experienced abuse and always have such a difficult time reading things like this. The second story definitely hurt me to read. The pain I feel is multiplied since I have a two-year-old of my own. I mean, I get that two-year-olds are frustrating as hell. But hitting them with a belt...just imagining that…

So...I was a Guardian ad Litem (volunteer advocate for the children in these cases) for years. Often, the parents would tell their friends and family members that the kids had been taken from them for just a “light” spanking, or that they had left their kids alone for “just a second” while they went next door.

THANK YOU. Seriously. I was in foster care for three years and then put back in the home of my abusive mother. Those three years were far from perfect but, on some level, I still don’t think I’ve recovered from being put back in that household. I understand the experience may be traumatic for some parents that have…

I’m also have a hard time with this. I adopted an older child who was in the system and I’ve seen the effect this behavior has on children. I totally empathize that the parents do not want to lose their kids and the system itself can can do harm to the kids. It’s often not done out of malice but from a lack of…

I think that is really good point. I have a lot of mixed feelings on this, as a case worker myself. But the area I work in is bad, not as BAD as the system these stories are coming from. I just feel like we have this (rightfully so!) zero tolerance policy of violence towards anyone else.... except children, for some…

This is a very hard read for me. Full disclosure, I’m an abuse survivor so I may have my own issues all over this, but... It really sounds like they’re painting parents as the victims. The parents are adults.