Given that their father left them in jail not allowed to see one another or have their mom or any of her family visit while he fucked off out of the country for two weeks, I’m entirely willing to believe they’ve got damn good reasons for wanting nothing to do with him.

It’s also really common for kids to (of their own volition!) not like a parent and not feel safe with them. All those kids are old enough to have their own opinions. I can’t tell you how shitty it is to be told by the court that because you are not 18, it is impossible that you would have any independent thought and…

No matter how you look at this story, the children are the victims here.

While an improvement over a juvenile detention centre, I don't like that these children are being forced to attend camp. The lack of respect that this judge is showing for the personal autonomy of these children is shocking. Another story I read about this included a quote from the judge heaping praise on the father…

Maybe you should go on a microhike for ten days and chill out.

This article isn’t about you, though. It’s about somebody for whom “ten days” is significantly scaled back. She isn’t telling anybody that they should go take ten-day vacations to be like her; she’s saying that vacations that are scaled back from your usual can also yield similar results. If ten days is a lot of…

I have no idea which matches, I just am embarrassed that I know what brand of polish these are based on the bottle shape alone.

“Unrestrained access” means they have all their options available to them. Including a state-paid vasectomy (in my state) if they wanted it. And the female condom is an insult to the Gods, both old and new.

... I think you all who are saying she seemed to be enjoying the situation, are projecting a wee bit. ... as in, interpreting something as you think you would intend/feel it, rather than what the person taking that action, is/would.

I don’t see what you are talking about. she seemed to me to have appropriate…

As I understand it, her thinking is that her husband knew that he was going to seek divorce before they had the surrogacy set up - that he continued to pursue the surrogacy with her specifically because he intended to seek child support.

This is Millihelen. It’s not supposed to be news.

Biased in favor of... facts?

For anyone here who says vaccines are dangerous - the method used to produce vaccines has been studied for over 200, close to 300 years. Cars have been around for less. Microwave ovens have been around for less. VACCINES HAVE BEEN AROUND LONGER THAN HANDWASHING AS A MEDICAL PRACTICE.

To save somebody else the click: Apparently “secret wife” means he was married at 19 and divorced at 21 and doesn’t have this information, like, branded on his forehead for all to see.

This chick is incapable of owning her shit. It’s pathological. Media got it wrong? It’s literally right there in black and white, Bristol.

Stop explaining yourself, Bristol. We don’t care that you’re having another baby out of wedlock! Honest! You do you. I was more concerned with the fact that the birth announcement literally made it sound like you just found out you have terminal cancer.

Also the conflicting reasoning from the parents who do it. They say they don’t do it hard enough to hurt (it’s not assault, it’s a “quick pop” or “tap”), but apparently it’s still super necessary and their kid will turn into a serial killer if they don’t.

I was spanked and I’m fine, though spanking did teach me how to properly hide information from my parents that might eventually result in my getting spanked. It’s just an objectively bad parenting strategy.

What I take from this is that it's only illegal to assault adults. Children are fair game.

Given the recalls, it seems someone was prescient to have included the world lemon in the company’s name.