It probably also happened because the state is already involved in these individuals lives with services and the like, whereas other, worse, parents get to keep their kids because the state doesn’t have them on their radar. Frankly, most kids would be in orphanages if the state knew what their family lives were like.

You can sure as shit bet that if they committed a murder then they’d be found fit to get the death penality, but god forbid they be allowed to have their children.

That’s why it’s the low calorie version.

Plenty of people have pregnancies without realising it.

They reproduced. The whole point of Eugenics is to stop that process. I’m a Vermonter, I know these things.

No offense but unless we have the details of the case, we have no idea what occurred or why. Parents always run to the media and they are very often telling us what we want to hear. In the UK where I am, one family put up such a stink that they actually managed to sue and win an apology against the social workers…

This is so sad. There is a way to set up a system where someone comes to the house once in a while and checks to make sure that everything’s OK, or to help if they need support. How could you just take away someone’s kids? Very few people are better off in foster care. The foster care system, at least in NY, is broken…

Eugenics-lite. Oregon is such an interesting hodge podge of crazy.

limited cognitive abilities that interfere with (their) ability to safely parent the child,

He thinks health insurance is life insurance.

Walk into any dementia-care area of a nursing home and you can have basically the same conversation. I’m not kidding.

Insane Theocratic Tatooine= best new band name.

Doesn’t it depend on which part of Saudi Arabia? For example, Jeddah being more relaxed than, say, Riyadh?

I lived in the Eastern Province of the Magic Kingdom for several years while working for the Saudi government. I am a white Western woman. I had to cover my arms and legs with the cloak garment called an abaya whenever I was off the residential compound but non-Saudi woman are not required to cover their hair or…

If you’re not an archeologist or an oil tycoon, why the hell would anyone want to go there?

You can respect a religion for its sake and still discuss certain practices that make it sexist or racist. It’s not black and white.

Nah, he is buddies with the Saudis. And it’s not like he cares about double standards.

Good luck with that tourism, guys. I’m not going anywhere near that fucking place unless I can wear what I like and I dress frumpy as hell 100% of the time.

What a harlot who gives man boners???

Fuck, I can’t imagine not being able to chose what to wear in 100+ degree heat.