So many people just conveniently ignoring the mental health angle. God forbid we ever acknowledge that rich people can have problems and that an issue might not be black and white.

Rant: I just don’t get this response to the kardashians. Who cares if they didn’t “earn” their fame? Also that’s not even accurate. Kim got her initial fame from a sex tape released without her consent but this family has STAYED famous because they promote and promote and promote and model and start make up lines or…

And BLM

Seriously? While your husband was in and out of psychiatric facilities you’d publicly denounce him over a visit that occurred well after the election and when he was clearly still unstable? To each his own because I’d wait until my spouse was all there to quarrel about this or anything else.

She’s also a vocal supporter of Planned Parenthood.

Such complete and utter bullshit. Kanye hasn’t said a word of support for Trump since February. Deleted all his pro-Trump tweets. And Kim has spoken out against the Muslim ban, revoking ACA, the transgender military ban.

The most “enlightened” intelligent, accompished and educated people are sometimes the shitiest, (a lot of them are here). They’ve been bashing the Nsyncs the Britney Spears and the Kardashians for decades. The vapid and “famous for nothing” narrative has gotten old, if anything (besides a really lucrative living and…

I am watching! I agree that JHud is Christina 2.0, taking the opportunity to belt out a song any chance she gets. It gets to be a bit much. I am shocked by how much I like Miley! I guess my expectations were low but I really like her. I could do without Gwen ever returning. She’s been the biggest dud judge yet, in my…

I thought throwing shoes at people was supposed to be an insult. I’m so confused now.

Democrats, rather than enjoying watching Republicans crash and burn their dangerous healthcare repeal bills, are apparently validating whiny Republicans by drafting a compromise bill behind-the-scenes.

Can’t believe you left out Alison Brie.

It is odd coming into these entries wanting to be completely on the side of the parents and coming out thinking, “Thank you CPS for taking those kids away so that the parents can finally get it together.”

Sorry, were we supposed to be sympathetic to the mother who beat her two-year-old with a belt and never acknowledged or took responsibility for the harm she did to her child?

I remember that NYT story! And you’re exactly right: that bias does exist, I’ve seen it. But these are NOT the stories they should be choosing to showcase that bias.

Very true. I had a girl who was raped repeatedly by her Dad (as was her brother- 6 at the time and I had to bring him to court and sit and watch him testify because he trusted me) who evidenced his desire she told me by wearing a bathrobe and she could see the rise in it. Mom actually watched.

I mean more after the fact and years later, and while I acknowledge it will be traumatic regardless simply due to the huge change I think that the biggest issue here is the lack of hearing how the kids are affected at all. Which is a huge problem when this is about child abuse.

I love how the people whining about the comments don’t stop and think “what if any of these commenters have suffered from being abused as kids.” Because there’s quite a lot who have, or have witnessed abuse or worked with abused children. Like no shit they’re annoyed at the apologia.

I can definitely agree with that. If my mother read Jez, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see her story here, telling about how her teenage daughter went to the system and lied about years of abuse in order to get out of her house. 25 years later, she still maintains she never raised a hand to me, outside of a…

He really is the only one so far that seems to get it. He knows what he did wrong, but he also brings up a good point about how fathers are overlooked in the system.

The NYT had a fantastic story about CPS and their “Jane Crow” bias against poor minority mothers. That story did a good job of finding black women who had their kids taken away for things like having a little pot on them when they are with their kids or a little kid getting outside on their own-things that happen all…