The link actually goes to the wrong Matthew Wilder. It's this Matthew Wilder: [www.imdb.com]

Wonder how many of that 80 had serious defects or threatened the life or health of their mother... Not that those are the only reasons for getting an abortion, but the point is we don't know. Grrr. Trash journalism.

Please shoot me now. When I first read this, I, of course, was like WTF? But as I pushed through the cobwebs to 1978 (I'm old), I discovered that I can't remember the guy who first kissed me (although I can picture his red hair, baseball cap and skinny arms) while saying good night at camp the summer I turned 11, but…

@BlondeGoddess: It also seems selfish to the babies. They had to take the first one out at 28 weeks, although the 2nd made it to 34. While a baby born at 28 weeks has a pretty decent shot at survival these days, the chance of severe disabilities is extremely elevated.

Maybe it's because I'm old enough to be these girls' mom (a teenage mom, but still!), but I think it's absolutely fine to have dreams but not many concrete plans at 24. You have the rest of your life to deal with reality!

@Chatsworth: My obese friend had the surgery as well, but it hasn't changed who she is — a beautiful but very fat woman who loves to eat and drink. So, now she struggles with feeling sick all the time (and sometimes worse than just "feeling" sick) when she eats or drinks more than her reduced stomach can…

@ritualtheory: Agreed. I found the Julia story at the AIDS benefit very moving. My parents (quite a bit younger than Julia) thought being gay was a psychological disorder and that gay people were "abnormal" and "sad" — despite being groovy feminist pro-civil rights leftist hippies in every other respect. They only…

One of my earliest memories (from the early 70s) is my Mom and the neighbor Moms all sitting on the front stoop sharing a joint while all the neighborhood kids played aroudn them. I know it was a joint b/c I asked her what it was and she told me. (My brother was still nursing then). Other memories from the same era…

Oh no. I need PTSD therapy now. My mother shopped and Sears and dressed me in Sears throughout the 70. All the other girls in my elementary school had much cooler clothing (and much richer parents). Worse yet my Mom would get our Toughskins two sizes too big so that I would grow into them so I always had a HUGE cuff…

At the risk of sounding like something from Penthouse forum or similar, I once had a woman who kept closely pressed to my back for the long trip from Brooklyn to UWS, even when it seemed like degree of crowding on the subway didn't warrant it. Her arm and hand kept touching mine along the pole (subway pole, no Forum-y…

@contracts is mah bish: Contracts... Law school (or being a lawyer) isn't what fucked up this woman's family and it won't fuck up yours (I don't think?). I'm not a mother myself but many of my colleagues are wondeful moms.

@morninggloria: My dad did this to each of my brother and I more than once (never anywhere far or where we didn't know where we were). And you know what — we were hellishly obnoxious pre-teens and early teens, and a simmering walk home from the pizza place or wherever, kicking stuff and muttering I hate my parents was…

What are the abortion laws like in England? This situation — really young children having children, birth control failure — seems to me to cry out for at least the possibility of an abortion. Wonder if it was considered, counseled, possible... If I had a 14 year old, it's what I would counsel, with putting the baby up…

@Sookie Stackhouse: Yes, the sorority, thank you! I often wonder where my wonderful girlfriends of yore have gone, and when the Stepford wives took over. The same women who a few years ago used to dish everything on their boyfriends, girlfriends, STDs, pregnancy scares, etc. etc. in endless hours of wonderful,…

@Monsita: Heee.

The NYT article mentions in passing that the kids are up at 2:30 am, and that the police have come to the house for "domestic incidents." I suspect, like others here, that we are going to find out that the file has a lot more in it than the names.

@crotchety: According to the New York Times article, the ShopRite story got into the papers because the father went to the local paper — expecting sympathy and shared outrage when his story was known.

This is crying out for reality show treatment. C'mon, MTV, make Levi and Bristol the stars of The Tundra.

@hollygirl: Ha! That was my first reaction too, but I actually think she's in Philly.

Does anyone but me just think the whole thing is hugely made up and exaggerated? The whole thing reads a little too much like a college girl's fantasy of what a rich guy would provide... "Company car" (what? tax cheat much?); "black card" (oh please); Chanel (thinks she sticks out much around campus in that? And what…