The sperm bank should definitely be accountable for giving her the wrong sperm HOWEVER, her reasoning was not just to have the same father.

‘I don’t wanna raise a negro child! Don’t you know how shitty their lives are?!’-horrible white person who sued a sperm bank over a healthy child

If that kid ever googles....

I had this happen when I volunteered at my daughter’s school for picture day. I was no-makeup, hair in a bun, baggy sweatshirt, and 33 goddamn years old. A teacher came up to me and said “Whose class are you in, sweetie?”

They call them scalpers to honor them.

Not a bad idea if anyone complains. Hook their moobs up to the milk machine. Have at ‘er boys. I’m sure you’ll enjoy the sensation of having your nipples nearly sucked off. It's great fun.

Whoa whoa. Slow down. We just got Texas to acknowledge that moms ought to be able to feed their babies, let’s not go crazy with things like “bonding.”

I wish people (men) really understood that granting women these rights is not only the morally just thing to do but also the SMART thing to do. I am currently exclusively pumping for a variety of reasons and the major reason I haven’t switched to formula is because we’ve had 4 colds in the 3 months that little skr has…

Good for Texas!!*

I fully support a policy that if a customer is rude to the staff, they will be refused service and told to leave.

Many years ago one of my very good friends died suddenly. The circumstances were pretty bad but he had this super cool hippie mom. His mom was the mom who’s house we always wanted to hang out at as teenager. So when he died she decided to bring him home and some friends made him a pine box and she decorated it with…

Aw, don’t hate yourself. Grief is totally, entirely disorienting and fucks with memory and reasoning and all thought processes. Really. You're being WAY too hard on yourself for no reason at all.

My cousin was adopted from Ukraine after a particularly harrowing experience as a 4/5 year old that spoke no English. She was chosen by a couple that had never met her in person, spoke no Ukrainian, and had all the paperwork was filed by missionaries for her citizenship to get her out of the orphanage in Ukraine. When…

No, there isn’t a small period of time. I’ve worked with foster kids for years. I’ve met many who were in limbo for well over 2 years. They end up going back to their abusive parents because family reunited is almost always the goal.

That is actually not accurate for all of the united states. In many areas (including Washington) it is a very long arduous fostering process after which the biological parents (or relatives of biological parents) can decide to yank the kid pretty much any time as long as they aren’t in prison.

I don’t want to dissuade people from adopting from foster care but they need to proceed with eyes wide open. A friend pursued her adoption of a young boy in foster care with well intentioned ideals- she overlooked red flags and some background information was withheld. Five years later, the boy’s mentally ill bio mom…

Ugh, please don’t casually conflate international adoption with child trafficking. There are many people who pursue that option with the utmost regard for ethics, although at its core it’s selfish (“the right path for us”) just like all the other ways to build a family.

Feel that I should point out that people who don’t want to adopt because the child may have special needs should be aware that you can have a biological child with special needs as well.

Back when we were struggling to conceive, I schooled an anti-choice acquaintance on why we couldn’t “just adopt” a baby (~$60K in fees, Guatemala closed its program, rejection from other international programs for my hearing loss and his Crohn’s, heartbreak over a state-side mom who changed her mind). She nodded her…

Adoption ain’t free or guaranteed, either. Far from it. And as to the “plenty of adoptable kids out there,” there really just *aren’t* unless you adopt older children who may have emotional issues or children with special needs. It’s great that some families are willing or able to do this - but let’s face it, it’s not…