It looks like one big tampon commercial.

One is the child; the other is that birth mother who often will go through extraordinary guilt years later when she begins to think through what happened — with the baby, with her.

YUP. My first year teaching the old man science teacher put his hand on my shoulder in a weird way. I said something to another teacher and she told me he married his former middle school student the day she turned 18. Not only do you have the responsibility to avoid the guy, sometimes they don’t even tell you to…

I’m a teacher and if I saw a teacher doing that to one if my middle school students, I would freak the hell out on that teacher and report them. That is disgusting and a betrayal. Our job is to keep them safe.

Thank you for writing about this. I remember in the 7th grade that there was an 8th girl, kind of popular and already developing, who was rumored to be “having an affair” with the PE teacher/football coach. I remember at that time that we blamed her - that we thought she was a “slut,” that we though she had enough…