From what I could tell Kid Rock was the nicest boyfriend she had. I may have missed reports of abuse but he seemed really heartbroken when they broke up! And Soloman seems like a complete piece of shit.

The problem with overly focusing on how intelligent a kid is is that, as someone pointed out on a different thread, while being able to read at a college level is really impressive for a 10-year-old, it's just not that impressive once you're in college. Barring a few real exceptions of astonishing intelligence, the…

I know I am loopy on cold medicine and failing in reading comprehension today but.....the three characters in this story all have last names that start HAR (Hardy, Harris, Hart) and I'm having a hell of a time keeping them straight.

I'm on leave from work with a major California city. I work in social services, shit like this is what makes me so mad. We aren't suppose to judge any family interested in fostering or adopting, but we are also suppose to do a thorough investigation of the family. And NEVER pressure anyone into adopting or fostering…

They have a room that should be this way in Buy Buy Baby. It has the changing table, and the chairs where you can sit and feed your kids. The only problem is that the door says "Mother's Room", and so if I happen to be in there changing a diaper or feeding one of my kids a bottle, and a woman comes in, not only is she…

The state of the bathroom doesn't really matter. Men are parents too, and often primary caretakers. It only makes sense for there to be changing stations in the Men's room.

I have a friend who changed his kid's diaper on the table (after everyone had finished eating and they were waiting for the server to pick up the check) while his wife was sitting there. The people nearby were all doing that making-it-obvious-that-you're-trying-not-to-make-it-obvious-that-you're-staring-and-judging…

Ashton Kutcher: not the feminist spokesman we want, but the feminist spokesman we need.

Yes, you would. Because otherwise you end up changing every damn road trip diaper. All the more fun when you have two in diapers. And yeah, women's washrooms are equally ewww.

Yeah, God forbid you clean a child's ass in the same room where other people clean their asses. This is fucking ridiculous. Men's rooms are no dirtier than women's, and even if they were, it wouldn't fucking matter because dads need to be able to take care of their kids too.

As someone who worked in a restaurant for years, don't make that assumption. Men can fuck up a bathroom, yeah, but women can also be naaaasty. Put the changing station away from the urinals and it should be fine.

I get your point, but for us plebes (like me, my husband, and kamla devi jr.) it is an issue. I am a working mom and there have been times where Mr. Devi and Jr. Devi have been out and about on their own without a place to change a diaper. So, even if it doesn't actually happen in Kutcher's life, I'm glad that…

How do you know she thinks she hits a triple? Maybe she understands her own situation just as well as you do.

Congrats, you're an abusive parent. Showing your kid not to be violent by being violent? Excellent strategy. That poor baby boy, why do you think he hits, when you show him that hitting is appropriate? And shaking? How old is he? I've seen one too many kids with fucked up vision from being shaken. But I don't think…

Sometimes it's called "disrupting the adoption." If you're really interested in all the horrors of evangelicals adopting "orphans" from abroad, The Child Catchers by Kathryn Joyce is a great (sad) read on the subject.

It is common. More common among christian foreign adoptions.

There is a huge problem in this country with children being adopted from shady overseas agencies by Christian fundamentalists, and then being 're-homed' (often to sexual predators) after they fail to be the perfectly obedient Christian children their adoptive parents expect. Several countries have had to cut off…

I think something like this has a lot more to do with your socioeconomic class over the course of your life than it does your current financial situation.

Did/do you enjoy privileges that maybe they didn't/don't? Because it seems your surprise at their surprise means there maybe a gap that goes beyond income.

I used to see a guy just like this. He would put on his apron after we spent all night going at it & would cook breakfast, bring it to me in bed, & we would skip our classes to listen to NPR & discuss the Ukraine conflict. (& go at it some more) Man, I miss that guy.