Tom Cruise apparently is a bad father.  At least we are holding 1 man accountable!

Thank you - there are so many judgy comments here. It’s not like she threw the kid in a garbage can and went on with her life. The child’s with her father and is presumably being well-cared for.

“Karmic balance” was my phrasing based on the concept I often discussed with my friends in the program, that you don’t get to skip or stop at that step because the person you wronged is dead or otherwise inaccessible. AND, that your desire to make amends and work your steps is not more important than the wronged…

Why is this news worthy? I can’t remember any articles of male actors or prominent men not seeing their children after a separation or divorce.

Maybe she decided she wasn’t emotionally or physically capable. Maybe the father is a better parent, and she recognized that. Maybe she decided it was the best thing for her child, which is the important part.

Maybe Ms. Panettiere is happy without this child. Maybe the child is happy to be with her Dad and Babushka. Maybe some women don’t want to raise children. Maybe some men pressure women to have children they don’t want. 

I can’t account for Tyler’s recollection of the needle as a part of the abortion. My guess is they did an amnio as part of her workup after the fire to determine harm to the fetus after her extreme level of oxygen deprivation, and Tyler misunderstood what that was for. Possibly it all became fuzzy in his memory (this…

Tina Fey had a great quote that I’ve never been able to find online. Something like:

I got the same vibes while reading Jez’s 2011 article. The details are mostly a lengthy series of fundie-coded buzzwords re: anti-choice propaganda...

I decided not to have children, literally because I wanted to ensure the cycle of abuse was broken, and I just couldn’t promise myself I would never ever do any of what my parents did to me. I know I would never purposely hurt any child, but I’m emotionally broken, sometimes, and I don’t know what impact that would…

LifeSite is...not reliable. It is a Religious Right propaganda site. Holcomb’s account hits every square on the Religious Right Life-Is-A-Left-Wing-Conspiracy Bingo card, but she’s subtle about it, and if you didn’t grow up speaking the language, you might miss it. I have no doubt that she had a relationship with…

Jimmy Savile, Jerry Sandusky and Michael Jackson used charity as a way to rise above suspicion while getting access to a vulnerable pool of potential victims, and increase the odds that anyone who could catch them in the act had a reason to look the other way. The facility is fine only as long as Tyler isn’t allowed…

By the time I was 16, I’d endured years of: misogynistic tirades from my father who called me a prostitute when I was in second grade (learned a new word that day!); ongoing paranoia from both my parents that I’d have sex despite not knowing what sex was at the time (lower elementary school); bullying at school from…

OMG, are you kidding me with that forced-birther propaganda bullshit? “they punctured my uterus with a large needle and left me alone... the baby came out of me alive and was allowed to die.” That’s straight fantasy. That is not how abortions work. 

guy did bad thing, does good thing later on. media doesnt talk about bad thing when mentioning the good thing.

Yeah, I’m anti-death penalty because of the relatively high rate of innocent people being put do death...but, in a case like this, throw him in a wood-chipper.

We can replace animal testing with assholes like this.

Fuck her cunt mother is right. I was looking for the right words and those are it. How can one poor child only be surrounded by trash adults?

I hope her cunt mother goes to jail and loses custody of this girl and any other children she has forever. She doesn’t deserve to be anyone’s mother. 

Fuck everyone in this story except for the girl and the police who found her. I hope all of these terrible adults get exactly what they deserve.