Man, I really miss Craig Ferguson.

Usually I see this post too late to comment, but I am enraged by it every week. My mom’s story would sound exactly like this, that she was a good mom and every external force in the world separated us - it was my dad’s fault, it was the neighbor’s fault who reported her, it was my fault for telling my teacher I didn’t…

Thanks so much for sharing your perspective on this. I know that the purpose of this series is to highlight the parents’ perspective in the system, but having worked on the “child’s” side of the system, I think the children’s stories are necessary to give a complete picture.

I’m an adult now with a good life, but I was a child with a mother like the women in these stories. She was stripped of her parental rights by a Midwestern state in the early 90s. I don’t know how much you all know about the Midwest, but for my home state to decide that a woman was not fit to parent, her behavior had…

A link to the Past! Snes Classic FTW!! I now remember that I never even beat that game when it originally came out. I’m having a blast and I just got my hookshot baby!

I used to watch Battle of the Planets after school every day.

While I agree, having worked as an attorney in the system on all sides (parents, Acs, and attorney for the child) one thing that always amazed me, although I guess it really shouldn’t when I think abt it harder, is that almost universally, no matter how bad the situation was and how abusive the parents were, if you…

Wait, isn’t he a fucking robot? Or something like that? They gave it functional sperms?

The whole series would SO benefit from having the kids’ voice involved. Kid who feel they shouldn’t have been pulled but were and why, kids who should have been taken away but weren’t and why, looks at how the various separations affect the kids in general (which I have found lacking in every story so far). The…

I’ve done that long time ago, it’s the best relationship i ever had.

I have been both a parents attorney and GAL/legal counsel for children. There are many parents who go into this refusing to admit that they did anything wrong. Their completion of requirements to get their kid back appears to be for show in that nothing happens until 10 days before the next hearing. They flip out in…

To answer the headline - because I’d recommend anyone start with season 1 first. They should’ve released that a lot sooner, it’s a serialized show.

Ted Danson’s acting in the moment Eleanor figures out the Good Place is not Good at all was phenomenal; a slow, malevolent smile crossed his face and his wonderfully sinister laugh was unsettling as hell, selling the moment perfectly.

So forking good.

This is on tonight?!?!

I’m a Guardian ad Litem volunteer as well. It’s tough. Lack of transportation, lack of education, lack of family members (or financially and emotionally stable family members) to help out, make climbing out of the system and completing a treatment and case plan very difficult.

I’m adopted, as is my younger sister. My family has also been fosters and guardians ad litem. If you’d like to hear what happens to the children whose parents whose rights were terminated and families who adopt them, I can tell you about heartbreak and an absolute lack of advocacy as well.

So...I was a Guardian ad Litem (volunteer advocate for the children in these cases) for years. Often, the parents would tell their friends and family members that the kids had been taken from them for just a “light” spanking, or that they had left their kids alone for “just a second” while they went next door.

THANK YOU. Seriously. I was in foster care for three years and then put back in the home of my abusive mother. Those three years were far from perfect but, on some level, I still don’t think I’ve recovered from being put back in that household. I understand the experience may be traumatic for some parents that have…