No. He knew her as a child and helped raise her as her mother’s boyfriend. Her age was in question since she was an orphan so we only have his say-so and her estimated age to go by to believe that he waited until she was 17 or 18 to lay a finger on her. So what we have here is a teenage girl’s father figure, her…

Sounds like a macrocosm of what often happens when there is sexual abuse in a family or close knit community. It’s easier to condemn/ostracize/ignore the victims than it is to deal with feelings of guilt or responsibility. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised, but I always am. It wouldn’t be that hard to break these…

What in the ever loving fuck? How much power does Chester really wield? His movies are horrible predictable “old dude get young chick” schlock. I don’t care HOW famous the director...you don’t knowingly work with dudes who molest 6 year old. What the fuck is wrong with these people?? Just so gross on every level.…

I don’t buy the fear argument at all. You don’t have to denounce a person to avoid working with them.

Or he’s not angry because he knows it’s true and never denied that it happened.

I’m a white woman, too. I don’t have kids. I understood this issue “viscerally” over ten years ago, from pro bono work in the family court system. The people paid to pretend to care about those kids could barely muster the pretend for more than an hour a month. Everything is starved for resources. The kids, in…

So this deeply affects me. I do have children of my own but I know they are well taken care of by me and family. But it is their peers, children of the community, whom I am worried. In an area now known for its food, as in restaurants, we still have nearly three children out of ten knowing hunger.

I think part of the problem is that people like you and me, and our parents, still remember how we were independent and free and unprotected, and we survived. It’s still in our recent cultural memory. The safety improvements of the past 40 years also came with increased laws and regulations that chafed the right wing…

Thank you for this. I also had this same epiphany after I had my son, and the reality of how poorly we treat children and families in this country hit home. Since you’re searching for an activism outlet, I’d encourage you to work for a paid family leave bill in your state, if it doesn’t have one already. If it does,…

So I work with many different kids in many different environments for for the past 10-15 years...I love it and I can’t imagine doing anything else with my life.

FOR PROFIT prisons. FOR PROFIT workhouses. For those institutions to work, you *need* a surplus population. Preferably an ill-educated, poor and desperate populace that will sacrifice morals for a meagerly laid table and some semblance (or the the illusion) of healthcare.

She said she didn’t feel it “viscerally, in her bones” like she does now. She never said she didn’t care before. I’m sorry but all the white women hate that comes on this board annoys me sometimes. Ya know, white women can be dense, I know I can be. But I know I mean well and I try and continually being judged because…

Okay, but how is that a rebuttal to what the author is saying? Shouldn’t kids matter? And the point I thought she was making was that we have actually made some social progress towards caring about children in a cultural sense. The abolishment of poor houses and child labour (in Western nations), the criminalization…

When did this country ever care about children as a whole?

Don’t forget the fact that a woman who has devoted decades and has spent tens, or even hundreds of millions of dollars to actively destroying public education, is now the Secretary of Education.

I’m super happy McCain voted as he did but would like to point that when it comes to mavericking, Lisa Murkowski wins hands down. She was primaried in the 2010 Senate elections in Alaska and won as a write-in. She’s so good at her at her job and so damn likeable that more than 100,000 people took the time to attempt…

Really I don’t see this as him being a Maverick, I see this as him actually standing by his principles. His actions match his speech from yesterday. He WANTS Obamacare removed and replace but he doesn’t want it in a hap hazard way.

Umm excuse me I affixed a bumper sticker to my car that says “can’t feed ‘em, don’t breed ‘em” and so clearly I have done my part in helping solve child hunger and structural inequality. Now, off to vote for cuts to health care that I’m sure will never affect myself or anyone I love because I am neither a child nor…

He’s Aunt Pittypat.