Okay except Geoffrey Zakarian filed for bankruptcy to avoid a class action suit against him by over 100 former chefs who worked for him, for failing “to pay the workers time and a half for overtime, falsified pay records to shortchange them and deducted from their pay checks for staff meals they were not given.”

Again?

An MRA-apologist.

A-#)*&%$-men! What LUNATIC holds the kids responsible, and IGNORES the child’s statement of “my father is violent”, and FORCES him to see said father!?

Is your office anywhere near this? Is there anything you can do to help these kids?

Amen.

I’m a family law attorney, and my office has been up in arms about this all week.

“She’s just making it up to cause trouble because she doesn’t like living in a structured environment.” Basically guarantee that is the thought process of the social workers who are supposed to be supervising the foster care situation. Investigators further up the chain (like cops) give a lot of weight to the social…

What?!? Goddamnit. This is awful.

This is wonderful, thank you for sharing.

I recently put on a legal clinic for homeless teenagers - for whom this is obviously extremely relevant. Many had come from foster care where they had been sexually abused. The biggest shock to me was that all of those who had been abused had reported those crimes to the police, with the support of family, yet it was…

Writer/lawyer Andrew Vaccess wrote a fantastic article about the language people use when discussing abuse, and he talks about the term “child prostitute” vs the term “prostituted child.”

I’m sometimes the one on here to put links up where to go to help or donate. This time, I’d really like to know what I can do to help, from those of you who know who’s fighting the good fight on this issue. Thanks!

And a non-prescription, disposable, one-size diaphragm with spermacide included has been around for a couple of decades.

What is this shit? Why would this need a prescription?

That’s like saying all the shit Kim Jong-Il does, including regular cabinet purges, is cool because it’s the country’s law.

Right. And we should never, ever question grossly unjust laws.

Isn’t the whole point of activism saying “Fuck this shit” in terms of the status quo? If activism didn’t exist, the world would be a very different, and very bad place.

These ladies are so fucking rad.