What is exaggerated and what is neither here nor there? Hitting is assault, period. Hitting is also scientifically shown to have negative neurobiological and behavioral impacts on children that can last for life. We cannot keep excusing the people who do it just because it happened to us.

It's still NEVER ACCEPTABLE to hit a child. Ever. No matter how bad or dangerous or anything the situation becomes. See the vast body of research that says hitting kids is bad. Hitting an adult is a crime. Hitting a child should be a crime too. Especially because that child is much smaller and had little say in the…

Here's the thing though: Violence against kids is actually sanctioned in many schools and in many states. Corporal punishment is viewed as an acceptable form of discipline, despite so much evidence that it harms children and inhibits learning and does not improve behavior anyway. This documentary shows how horrific it…

Yep, which is why we need to make it illegal, just like it's illegal to hit an adult.

I wish my state had that rule too. I work with children with disabilities, and I am horrified that there's no para on many of the buses, even the ones with violent kids. Those drivers have the hardest job in the school system. There's no guarantee that a para or even a highly trained special ed teacher would not hit a…

Which was not okay either. It's assault to hit an adult. It should also be assault to hit a child — who is much smaller and has far less control in any situation.

Look into the science on spanking. There's a remarkable 93% agreement in the large body of research (hundreds of studies done in dozens of countries by thousands of experts in several fields of study) that spanking not only does not work, it in fact it harms children, and the effects are cumulative. It causes…

Or a pageant response.

Pegacorns, someone with a huge knowledge of fantasy stuff told me.

My brother-in-law posted "Brrrrr..." as his FB status today. He lives in Houston, where it was 30 degrees. Fuck him.

Are you in a red state?

Exactly what I have been wondering.

Thanks for giving me exactly what to say when my mom brings this up and condemns the poor husband.

What, you expect us to use logic? This is 'Murica, we don't need no stinkin' logic.

Well, that ruined my day. After the rape insurance law we now have in Michigan, I shouldn't be surprised, but I still am. Fuck.

Is this even a good way to incubate a fetus had it not been oxygen deprived? Does anyone know what the success rate is for this kind of process? Seems like last time a story like this made the news (and the woman was months further along!) the child did not survive after birth.

Oh this one so much. My friends who are more financially established now and who were able to travel more in college, etc. often don't comprehend how much their families helped this happen. While their parents may not have been rich, not having to pay for medical bills, car insurance, school books, and cell bills…

You wouldn't have! Probably one of the more normal checkouts they'd have that day.

If only our little lady brains could work out that science. Or if we cook the menfolk enough nourishing meals and provide enough inspiring sex (the religiously married kind, of course!), maybe they will make one for us.

Either way, God smote you with some affliction that you OBVIOUSLY deserve, and you should have to carry that burden yourself. DUH. (Even if in my case that burden of being born with a weird uterus costs me $1,200 plus a year because I have to take the expensive whore pills.) Or at least that's what my dad would say…