No, they haven’t. She’s been with them four years, and they were told at the outset (and repeatedly thereafter) that she was not adoptable and that family reunification was the goal of her case. As responsible fosters they should have put her interests before their own by trying to facilitate that reunification in a…

If I understand your proposal correctly, that’s exactly how the law works—and exactly what the Little Sisters of the Poor are objecting to.
“While churches, synagogues, and mosques were exempted from the Affordable Care Act’s employer-provided contraception requirement, religious nonprofits that object to affording…

Maybe these religious organizations should start paying some taxes before they think they can decide what is and isn’t covered by health care.

Life in prison is not “getting a free pass.”

One of things I hope for most dearly is that the death penalty will be abolished in my lifetime. Not the feckless, useless, piecemeal state by state abolition, but the federal government actually stepping up and saying no more. I hate this shit. It’s WRONG.

also, i live in the midwest and it’s nice to smell like something other than clinique “happy” or fucking tommy girl.

I half agree. I was thinking the same thing, but I did find the punative parts interesting. It does seem counterproductive to punish someone who makes 10k a year for not paying child support by suspending their driver’s license or incarcerating them. That’s certainly not going to help anyone make *more* money.

If you’re a huge asshole, then so am I. I was reading all the way through, thinking “Just get a second job at Taco Bell and pay your arrears.”

I’m probably being a huge asshole but I have trouble understanding how the non-custodial parents not paying child support are the victims here.

In addition to bleeding every month for the last decade +, my pussy will soon pass a roughly 8 lb human before going back to original size. I grew a little person and currently my pussy (uterus, really) also has a penis. Can a dick do that? No. Dicks are the weak unprotected little liabilities that are essentially the…

Can we be real and tell him straight up that Venus and Serena are probably 10x more recognizable than any male tennis player? Because seriously, I know who Nadal is, but I wouldn’t know a dude tennis player on the street. I doubt many others would either.

Hotel stay with the bachelorette??? That whole thing sounds like a really expensive affair. It’s a lot of money to demand friends to spend! I’ve told my bridesmaids that my bachelorette will be drinking around a campfire at a family cabin. Possibly with a penis-cake. For her bachelorette, my sister wants chattering…

are you in the USA? If so, I’d tell them it’s an FMLA-type matter and she’ll sort it out when she returns.

I’m not above listening to you gripe! Yeast infections suck! The worst part for me is the feeling that you just want to take a vegetable brush and scruff away until the itching stops, then you realize how much that would hurt later, then you think about the vegetable brush again, and so on and so forth.

Well, my friends, I have some news.

yeah — my first one was also chill, because the bride didn’t expect anything huge. we had a low-stress, low-cost bachelorette for her, and she and literally said to us “wear a black dress. you all own black dresses, just wear them.” it was AWESOME.

no advice on the marriage front, but I am in awe of your awesome mom skills. one day your kids are going to realize that you literally BRUSHED TURDS for them and they are going to be like “wow my mom really loves me.” sometimes I realize the crazy shit my parents have done for me and it makes me feel warm and happy…

Two of the women who are most important to me in this world are both getting married this summer. This is, of course, excellent news; I love them both and I am thrilled that they have found partners who love and support them and want to commit to them. I am looking forward to celebrating with them! But both weddings…

Motherhood/marriage-related rant (and I apologize in advance for the TMI/grossness/bummer content). So, my younger daughter has been complaining of abdominal pain for some time now, and I decided to investigate. So far she’s been diagnosed with a quite severe lactose intolerance and the doctor wants to test for…

AHHHH!!!! SO EXCITED!!!!