I don’t believe you know what “double standard”means. Attorneys refuse to take cases all the time. Male attorneys are criticized when the civil cases they take are in opposition to their public stances. For example, there were many that criticized Ted Olson for his championing of same-sex marriage rights due to his…

Your name has “Dad” in it.

If a male lawyer were trying to build a career as a crusader, he’d catch shit, too.

I’m a lawyer. No one has a right to my services, outside very limited contexts that don’t apply here.

This isn’t about gender, it’s about hypocrisy. And I have seen male attorneys criticized for taking on clients who are in direct opposition to that attorney’s previous public stance. In the area where I live there is a prominent attorney whose primary work was environmental protection cases and was quite publicly…

I highly doubt that Bloom ever saw herself as “a champion of women”. 

Her blurb on her firm’s website describes her as someone who represents the victims of sexual harassment. Literally.

I think the point is that she can’t have it both ways. If she wants to represent Weinstein that’s up to her, but that deals a blow to any reputation she may be trying to build as a champion of women. If she wants to protect that reputation she can make the choice not to represent him. But having chosen to take him on…

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