2. Maybe they mean Teen (Mental Capacity/Maturity) Mom

Out of curiosity, does she have any means of supporting herself that aren’t reality television appearances?

She’s a weird morph of her mom and the mean NRA lady.

The Palins hate Hollywood so much that they keep appearing on reality tv shows and trying to become celebrities. Also, I thought this show was about girls who were currently teen moms or at least started out on the show as teen moms? Bristol is pushing 30. She will fit right in with the rest of the the trashy bunch.

I had forgotten she existed. I miss those days.

1. Farrah Abraham doesn’t “leave” a void. No one has ever been in a situation that was made worse by her absence.

Just wanted to chime in that I feel all of this. My parents never had money, their parents never had money, and so on. Yet many of my same-age acquaintances have parents who paid for the schooling/education/cars/gas/food and they are so far ahead of me in life because of this. This doesn’t take away from their own…

I have been there, it is awful. I quit a job right before my son was born because with daycare costs I would have been working full time and only bringing home like 500 dollars as the rest would go straight to daycare. I found a part-time night job six weeks later that allowed me to stay home with kids during the day…

Yes. Like, I’m glad people are doing this in face of the unjust system we have, but the lesson we should take from this isn’t “aww, isn’t this nice!?” but “how fucked up is this??”

I feel the same way about successful gofundme campaigns and the like. If you have to raise money so you don’t die because you can’t afford…

It depends. Often people are hired on contract to cover maternity or parental leaves.

my company tried to do this for me when I unexpectedly got pregnant. I didn’t ask, but I found out later that a few other people in the office had approached our boss to donate their leave time to me so I could take paid time off (I worked for a hospital and had been there a year. i only had accrued two weeks off, and…

Ha! Like they want us over there.

how are the immigration laws?  would it be difficult for a US citizen to become a citizen of Sweden?

The system works perfectly, it’s just not designed to benefit anyone that it isn’t already benefiting 

Yeah, I definitely respect the people who are willing to sacrifice their PTO so someone can take maternity leave, but I get disheartened when the reaction to it is, “How nice, look at how well individualized/private donations work! Let’s keep encouraging people to stuff like this!” rather than,”How nice! But why don’t…

Rub it in, why dontcha? ;)

Americans, we sure love our feel-good stories about living in a capitalist dystopia!

Wow, I feel for young parents in the US. That is a brutal system. In Canada you can now take combined maternal/parental leave for up to 18 months and claim employment insurance benefits. (I’m not up on the finer details of how much $ and for how long, but I know it’s available.) Some employers (like where I work) top…

I live in Sweden. We get 480 days of paid leave per child. All pre- and postnatal care is free, health care, dental care, prescription medication and in most places, glasses, are free until you turn 18. Daycare is subsidized and based on income, so you never pay more than 3% of your income for the first child, 2% for…

That I got a Lyft add embedded in this article seems a bit too on the nose.