I am less likely to marry with each passing year. Not only do we grow less attractive in the conventional marriage market of our society as we age, but I, for one, am less interested in the prospect altogether as I grow more independently wealthy. I don’t need it, don’t want. I’ll only do it if someone needs one of my…

I think it’s just the case where statistically and generally an encounter like this is overwhelmingly unhealthy, but in rare circumstances can turn out just fine conditional to the agency, motivation, and emotional health of the specific individuals involved.

It takes both I think- some to push for broader representation, and some to call bs on the whole thing. For years and years, I was one of those arguing for broader representation. I’m tired of it.

Honey, if you’re the one willing to end an otherwise healthy, happy, committed life partnership on the basis on a single, isolated episode of infidelity, the person who’s “throwing away their commitment” there is you.

Um, no. Given that the seats your kid kicks belong to strangers, you have no idea what they’re dealing with and have no idea if it’s causing “mild discomfort” or “annoyance” or something else - and your role in upholding the social contract is to do your best with your kid. Kids are kids, and your role as a parent is…

I’m in favour of abolishing the draft entirely.

Depends on the child. I don’t have exact figures, but it can actually be quite lucrative. If the child has extensive mental health or medical needs (any kind of “special” need), the price really jumps. Get six special needs kids in your home...and that becomes your source of income. The vast majority of homes are…

Being 14 and sending nudes is very bad. That’s when you sit your kid down, have a talk about how nothing disappears online and that will follow you around, sexual promiscuity, find the root of the problem, take away her phone, get her therapy and then you whip a battery at her head if all that doesn’t work.

“I hope my son sees early on that not everyone gets a trophy,” said Bristol Palin, a person who is famous because of her talent, hard work, and thoughtful insights.

This appears to be the law enforcement communities response to “those people” wanting more oversight and justice when officer executes unarmed people. This will also make it much more likely that someone would not complain about police abuses if the officer then turns around and sues them for being the victim.

Uhhh, isn't emotional distress part of the job description when you decided to become a police officer? It is literally your job to handle distressing situations. It's also the defense apologetics use when explaining why it's okay for you to kill unarmed civilians. This is an extra step of awful.

I don’t think it’s objectively shameful, but it’s clear she intends it to be shaming, whether the embarrassment is from the act itself or just having very personal details revealed.

It’s a pissing contest between who can be the most outraged and the biggest ally at this point. Conservatives have their screeching about abortion and killing babies, while not actually caring about living babies, while liberals want to yell about rights for POC and criticize anyone for saying anything or attempting…

I envy Wiz. He got to call Kanye west a fool. That must feel so good.

So. How many folks commenting here that Dana should be under her biological mother’s care would like to be Dana?

I’ve said this else where but it probably also counted against her parents there wasn’t already a plan in place beyond grandma “helping”. The grandparents should have known she had issues with time and scheduling and since they had 3 kids themselves known a newborn needed to eat every three hours and either stayed the…

I don’t really know how I feel about the situation because I have no experience caring for children/with DCF. But something that makes me “concerned” (I don’t know if that’s the right word) is that having a child is a continuous learning process. It’s not like merely having access to resources to teach her to…

Yeah, I am in an ethical conundrum. On one hand, if this woman weren’t classified as disabled and couldn’t care for her child in these very, very basic ways, I don’t think anyone would question the DCF’s removing the baby from the home. But I just don’t know. I just don’t think a newborn should be used as a learning…

I suspect it had a lot to do with the grandparent’s own DCF history. It’s very true that one report can haunt you for a long time but it appears that they had a recurrent history with DCF reporting that didn’t result in the birth mother being removed from the household as a child (and maybe she was but there’s no…

I think it’s okay to offend adults when children are involved. No child deserves to be treated like a learning experience for an adult who isn’t competent.