No, but we are talking about 12 months with pay in order to take care of children, not to go on vacation. You can easily get 12 weeks with pay for taking care of children as a childless woman by becoming a nanny or getting a job in a daycare center.

I'm going to join in with the choir of people saying: if you want cute big cats (and small cats and medium cats) follow Big Cat Rescue in Florida on youtube and facebook. They save all kinds of cats from places exactly like The Garold Wayne "Interactive" (the fuck does that even mean?!) Zoo Park. http://bigcatrescue.o…

By the way, I remember reading "Silent to the Bone"(male protagonist) "Speak"(female protagonist), and "Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy"(poetry, female protagonist) when I was about fifteen, so before I had any experience of my own. All three books are about young people dealing with…

I think the big difference is that cheerleaders are so thoroughly objectified that they could be stark naked, and people still wouldn't see them as expressing their sexuality, because objects don't have a sexuality to express, they are just expressing society's sexuality (which is male and hetero). But these men are…

I'm going to answer this one too, I hope that's okay. My mom always told me that if I was ever in any danger, I should call her and they would get me with no questions asked. She's kept that promise. I've done amazingly stupid stuff in my teen years and gotten in trouble for it because I didn't ask my parents to help…

I'm 24 and I stopped using tampons because I have this horrible tendency to get yeast infections. Best decision ever! I used to get infections twice a month, and I'm down to twice a year! Pads are really impractical, but they aren't half as impractical as yeast infections.

I didn't think I felt a difference, but I battle depression and it got really bad this winter. Taking seven days off of the pill to have my period actually helped. I felt less exhausted, which was unexpected.

Don't blame yourself for struggling! For me the hardest part of a break up (good or bad) is that you lose a confidante. Good for you for having the clarity of mind to realize that this guy wasn't a very good one! He may miss you, he may miss the relationship, but I think often what we miss is having a person in our…

Yes, they are. Because even though they are keeping their margin, they do it knowing that they will lose those customers who only prioritize prices, and don't mind that their inexpensive clothes are stitched by child-workers in delapidated factories. They have three options: 1. continue to do nothing, 2. insist on…

I realize that, but I honestly think this is a pretty huge gesture. It's much more than I expected...

Unrelated but not really: I heard that H&M are going to raise prices in order to give their workers (in developing countries) better work conditions, which I think is pretty awesome!

That was the website "Is Anyone Up", but it is pretty likely that the statistics for this page would be similar.

I understand that. A friend once told me that he had seen a picture of me on 4chan, but I could never find it myself. The thought is still pretty gut-wrenching, and I was destroyed when he told me, but it didn't seem reasonable(or humane, really) to search through all of 4chan to find something that might or might not…

I'm so sorry that happened to you! Have you considered pressing charges against your ex for distribution of child pornography or copyright infringement? To be honest, I wouldn't dare Press charges out of fear of the repercussions, so I have great respect for anyone that does (and complete understanding for anyone who…

Yeah, I'm gonna need to have a talk with my boyfriend... The whole "family-thing" we've been talking about is so off the table.

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If it had been a funeral, it may have been inappropriate, but this was a memorial and a celebration of Mandela's life. It was a festive occasion.

I'm going old school:

1. How sad is it that when a movie star re-wears a dress, everyone is like "Oh my gosh, she is GROUNDBREAKING!". Society is weird.