The virgin Mary was the immaculate conception in that she was born without original sin, the phrase doesn't mean being knocked up by God. Thus ends my pedantry for the day.

To be fair, my reaction to EVERY set of suchnots is "ewwww what is that?!"

Um...guys...it's not okay to point and laugh at other peoples' bodies. I'm the last person in the world to be all "what about the men!1!!1!" and I generally have close to zero sympathy for penis anxiety, but the way people are reacting to this is fucking gross and really, really surprising for Jezebel. There are…

The thing about people who come from stable backgrounds is that it's hard for them to wrap their heads around crazy until they see it. My husband (then fiancé) didn't understand it until I brought him to my parents' house for two days ("Why are we traveling across North America to stay for two days? Shouldn't we stay…

"They accuse me of being a terrible person, but won't elaborate about exactly what I've done. Well, sometimes they do, but it doesn't make sense, at least to me."

If most six year olds can't make good decisions in very simple circumstances, it's because they haven't been properly taught. In some parts of the worlds, six year olds literally build fires and cook dinners on them, take care of infants, and do housework, go swimming by themselves.

So CPS gets involved over this?!?! WTF?!?! I'm a teacher and called CPS numerous times over abuse and neglect cases and NOTHING ever comes of it. There's even a student who we are pretty sure is pimped out by her parents, and was molested by an uncle, but CPS just can't seem to find anything wrong.

This comment assumes that the children in question hadn't demonstrated their level of maturity to the parents previously, at which point they were given the freedom to walk home alone. By the evidence provided in this article, the parents knew what they were doing: they'd evaluated the potential risks the children…

"Homeschooling" is usually shorthand for "I don't want you filling my child's head full of 'facts' that are in disagreement with my incredibly fucked-up world view and/or cult-like belief system."

Just like in the 50s, children now are at much greater risk from adults they know than from strangers. There has been no point in recent history in which children have been significantly victimized by street crime.

I was 10 and my brother was 5. We took public transit by ourselves to get to and from school each day through a very iffy neighbourhood and nothing ever happened. And not just by luck. Most people don't want to hurt anyone. We hung out at parks after school, went to the beach by streetcar by ourselves, a walk to the…

I'm a teacher in Philly. The level of abuse that occurs to some children and they are left in those homes is just astounding!!!!! Maybe when we report the neglect, physical and sexual abuse we should mention that they also walk home alone. Maybe that'll get some fucking results.

this is happening where I live, so two interesting notes on the law:

This is crazy. A 10 and a 6 year old, together, are old enough to walk home.

I don't have a problem with Target selling sex toys. Why not?

Also, in all fairness to Target, I think one of those vibrating cartoon toothbrushes gave me my first orgasm.

The entitlement in telling another woman what to do with her eyebrows. I just — not to be obnoxious about it, but this is how women enact and enforce the patriarchy on one another.

Not every one can wear diva cups or even tampons, so please make sure you also donate some Barbie mattresses.

me. Red Tabby, no collar or tags,spayed female, loud meow. You crazy cat lady with cheese flavored treats.

Oh shit! How come shit like this never happens in my part of North Texas?