EXACTLY. The daughter sees her moms texts, probably within seconds or a few minutes from getting it, and chooses to just ignore it altogether. On these devices that her mom pays for.

I had to take out a loan to pay for my college and I’ve never gotten/borrowed a substantial amount of money from my parents, and reading this I’m kind of glad about that because it seems complicated as hell. My parents were going through a toxic divorce when I moved out and I was happy not to have to speak to them…

I mean, I know first semester is a big adjustment, but holy shit I am way busier now as an adult and manage to call my mother once a week now. I was in college before cell phones. My parents funded my Ivy League education. I’m sorry but no kids at Ivy Leagues are so busy that a 10 minute phone conversation once a week…

The daughter sounds like an ungrateful cock. You can be the best parent ever and still have one of those. If your parents pay for your shit, you better fucking communicate with them (I’m speaking as someone with experience because my parents paid for all of my education, apartment, books, phone, etc.).

Sorry, I absolutely think you owe your parents polite, minimal communication when they’re PUTTING YOU THROUGH COLLEGE. If you don’t want a relationship with your family and there’s bad blood I can understand - but if the ties are still there and you just left the house and they’re supporting you, why the fuck would…

I know that horrible abuse happens and that is a perfectly fine reason to cut off contact. That being said, I don’t think calling to check in every now and then is abusive. Unless there is some sort of abuse, it’s not too much to ask to pick up the phone. It just seems like showing a modicum of respect and empathy…

I disagree. My parents and grandparents paid for my school, and I managed to call them once a week for ten minutes, well before cell phones and emails were a thing. It was the least I could do considering what they were paying. My cousin even wrote a letter to my great-aunt once a month, in addition to calls. They…

I get that the mum is being pushy here, but I still find the situation weird. When I moved out to go to school, I suddenly appreciated my parents WAY more. They did my laundry! They cooked things! They drove me places! Suddenly all the things they did for me were put into real perspective because that shit is hard.

ORRRRR...just call your fucking mother once a week. Christ, you don’t need to be her best friend but throw her a goddamn bone. You’re an adult. I don’t care how independent you are or how you’re trying to be amazing at all the breaking away you’re trying to do. Recognize that you wouldn’t be doing any of this awesome…

Conversely, no adult owes any other adult anything based on birth. Children don’t have to talk to parents and parents don’t have to serve as silent ATMs for their adult children. If you want something from someone, basic civility is a good idea on either side.

A deep friendship and calling your mother back/returning a text are not remotely on the same scale.

An alternate headline for this piece could be, “Is My Weird Lust for Tom Hiddleston Clouding My Judgment, Oh God”

It’s a fascist dictatorship out there, and if you don’t step very carefully you’ll be stabbed and clubbed and the dogs will lick your blood.

He's the leading cause of mortality, though.

Very impressive. You’ve just made the same “health freedom” argument that is made by anti-vaxx wing nuts all the time. It is ok to be humble and admit a specialist in a field of study knows more than you can ever hope to, and then you can decide to trust that specialist. Neither you nor a midwife will ever know as…

How much of the maternal mortality rate is the result of improper and/or incomplete pre-natal care? Funding cuts to health programs for the poor, the closing of women’s clinics, the loss of Planned Parenthood locations, all of these contribute to maternal mortality.

Re the evidence of treating GBS positive women with intrapartum antibiotics:

You have no evidence whatsoever that midwifery is more scientifically sophisticated. You don’t appear to appreciate nomenclature or understand how statistics work.

I’m an old lady with a history of miscarriages and so am under waaaaaay more medical care than the average pregnant lady and I have never — not once — been pressured to undergo a procedure, test, or screening I did not want. My doctor has done nothing but explain everything to me fully and has actively avoided telling…

I was wondering when someone would trot out the long rescinded