how can this man not tell that i love the baby

kill me

This reminds me of that episode of Sex and the City where Kat Dennings is a spoiled brat 13-year-old.

My idol, though, is Scott Disick

That chilled me to the bone. It’s like a microscopic glimpse of a universe of petulant, obsessively precise demands. “No, imbecile! I told you a thousand times: cut my steak into diamond-shaped pieces, with each side no more than 2/3rds the distance between the top and the bottom! Do you understand nothing?!?”

How does a 10 year old know who Scott Disick is?

I don’t care how much $$$$$ you have. If Scott Disick is your idol, even if you are 10, you seriously need to look back at your life and see where you fucked everything up.

I was really hating my job until I read about the poor woman who has to charge a 10 year olds cell phone to exactly 99%.

My father was *real* invested in seeing me after my parents divorce. Went through lots of hoops. Only problem was that he had been sexually abusing me for most of my life and really just wanted to continue having access.

Fuck “appearances” and hoop jumping. That’s no indication of a parents worthiness of love and…

Does “jumping through hoops” include leaving the fucking continent for work the day after your children are incarcerated? Because according to the local news story, that’s what this fucker did. Asshole.

This happens way more often than you think. At the heart of it, domestic violence (perhaps ironically?) is viewed as wholly separate from family matters. That is to say, domestic violence is a criminal action, and custody matters are civil. While domestic violence can be used to influence the outcome of a custody…

Not to mention telling the kid “well your father was never charged with anything, so tough luck, you must be lying about the abuse” is INSANE. In family domestic cases reports of abuse and assault can go unreported for years out of fear of the abusers (or even to protect them in some cases) To use the fact that he was…

I’ve been slightly obsessed with this since I read about it yesterday; I used to live in the county it’s happening in so it feels especially close to my heart.

Don’t you think there is something really bizarre about how insistent the judge is? I almost wonder if she has a relationship with him....it’s too intense and personal.

Hell, even if you were an exemplary parent (or thought you were), your kids are still allowed to say “no thanks” to lunch or whatever and not go to jail for it.

But don’t you know? Children (like women!) exist as rewards for adult men who have “earned” their time and affection, and not as beings unto themselves with needs and desires and agency!

saying the father had “jumped through hoops” to have a relationship with his children.

I’m a family law attorney, and my office has been up in arms about this all week.

Hey it was poor people who crashed the stock market remember?

This is typical GOP narrative. When Romney got caught making the 47% remark and all the Joe Sixpacks came out of the woodwork to say “I work three jobs and I don’t take handouts, etc” as a point of pride, rather than questioning why they weren’t paid a living wage so they didn’t HAVE to work three jobs to make ends…