Soooo perhaps having good education about safe sex, easily and cheapily available condoms and birth control, and readily available abortion are the way to go, hm?

Please tell me you’re not one of those people that also think rich folks who want to/can care for children should be the only ones having sex.

yes, I’m sure poor people who have kids sit down and have a reasonable discussion about the long term risks and benefits of having children, carefully considering each factor and ultimately reaching a logical conclusion and making a plan accordingly.

I'm working on the problem. Give me more time.

“I wrote myself in, since I’m me and I’m here and I’m writing.”

thanks ilu2 g&t

Given that this was a dispute over shared space, I’d go with this instead.

#notallmalesharks

I love sharks so much. My number one bucket list item is to swim with Great Whites in South Africa. Gotta love apex predators, including this lovely lady.

This would significantly cut down on cat-calling.

#istandwithladycannibalshark.

I just picked up one of her books at a free book exchange (shout out to Baltimore Book Thing!).

...This comment feel like a slippery slope into eugenics. The old “poor people shouldn’t have kids” argument, which makes me super uncomfortable.

So so agree. I was an attorney for children’s services in NYC and the poverty and completely disproportionate effect on minority families is just heartbreaking. It always struck me too that no matter how bad things were at home, if you asked a kid where they wanted to go it’s always with mommy and daddy. And removals…

I wouldn’t say DV is something that only happens to people in poverty. However being poor does limit your options when in an abusive relationship.

Aaaah, this. Poverty is a cycle. Sometimes it breaks people too badly to fix. But life is not a Horatio Alger novel, impoverished kids rarely get the opportunity to bootstraps! themselves into the middle class. Constant discrimination against the poor merely perpetuates this cycle.

Someday we as a country are going to have to recognize that our incessant worship of money, and well off/rich people has led us down a really fucked up path. Poverty is the root of so many of our societal ills, and people will do ANYTHING to avoid talking about it and it’s effects directly. It doesn’t take a rocket…

Attorney here, working with families involved with child welfare. I represent parents and children, and all my clients are indigent. This is so incredibly spot-on. After six years of seeing addiction, domestic violence, neglect, all varieties of abuse, mental illness, and myriad other problems, it’s clear to me the…

This made me too sad. Wish I had something intelligent to add, but instead, I’m going face-first into a bottle of wine

Work should be on that list.