The second article mentions that a home visitor taught the parent how to love her baby, and as a home visitor, this is a very accurate description of our work. I work with my state’s MIECHV (mick-vee) program, which stands for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting. In some states, MIECHV works with a…

I’ve always suspected she was his beard. Surely I am not alone here.

Michelle Obama went to a school and read Seuss, was that an empty gesture?

Bless you for recognizing Posh as the comedic icon she is.

Normally you have good opinions, but this is not one of them.

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.”

The person relating the first story also admits she purposefully lied to a psychologist that could have actually HELPED her, and insists that a judge said something that could get said judge removed from the bench, while glossing over the multiple CPS calls that were already made before this instance.

Yes, as a consequences of the cycle of poverty series these essays are informative and pretty interesting examples, but as examples of parents being treated unfairly by the system? Not so much.

Janet should come on stage and tear out Justin’s crotch area, revealing one ball with a fidget spinner spinning on it.

Did you miss the part where there had already been several investigations BEFORE they took the children away? They didn’t just jump to removal.

You know what? I’m perfectly fine with the fact that people who have been convicted of neglect can’t get jobs caring for children and the elderly.

Lena sounds jealous and thirsty to me

Bingo. This is why neo-feminism is such cancer. It pushes independence (not marriage) and career obsession on women which leads to a bunch of unhappy 30-something women past their prime baby making years. It’s almost as if this was intentional...

I have always been very meh dgaf about Dunham, but for some reason, her saying people were triggered makes me hate her.

I’m a Guardian ad Litem volunteer as well. It’s tough. Lack of transportation, lack of education, lack of family members (or financially and emotionally stable family members) to help out, make climbing out of the system and completing a treatment and case plan very difficult.

So...I was a Guardian ad Litem (volunteer advocate for the children in these cases) for years. Often, the parents would tell their friends and family members that the kids had been taken from them for just a “light” spanking, or that they had left their kids alone for “just a second” while they went next door.

I know, but do you like to get fucked by groups of men calling you a filthy bitch until you prolapse? Have you actually seen any of the vile, misogynistic, humiliating garbage that passes for regular porn these days? I get that people like different things, but the fact of the matter is that boys are coming of age…

Is it really hypocrisy for a porn addict to want a public awareness campaign to state that porn is addictive?

Would it be hypocritical for a closet heroin addict to advocate for awareness of the dangers of opiate addictions?

Now if they were preaching that porn watching was “Evil” and that only “Evil Doers” do it. Then…

I get what you’re saying, but I think we also realize that individual responses to systemic injustice aren’t enough. I am against human trafficing, but I don’t buy sex, so therefore I am not part of the problem and those women need to figure it out for themselves. I am white but not racist, therefore racism isn’t a…

I’m no fan of Jenner’s by any stretch, but she didn’t “literally [get] away with murder.”