YES! That’s what I just posted before I saw this! She looks like she’d be KLG’s stunt double. I don’t even know who this is.

I get a Kathi Lee Gifford vibe from the picture. Anyone else? Same plastic surgeon?

“Perpetual access” isn’t fundamentally any more of a problem than it is with food and water. So if you think the only problem with addiction is a lack of social tolerance for it, then, at least according to the ideals of a liberal western society, what we need to do is try to get rid of this irrational social…

Yeah, I had similar experiences to this as late as the early 90s..

I was just thinking about my somewhat similar experiences earlier today. I apparently looked to be in my 20s by the time I was 12. I was treated like crap by people my own age but garnered attention from adult men. I however, was terrified and disgusted by it. Had I not been, my life could have easily gone in a very,…

I was 14 in 1994, puberty was a sudden transformation, and suddenly there were all these men... like, overnight I went from an awkward, invisible, book-reading person who did a lot of secret listening when adults were talking to figure things out about the world, to having an awful lot of male attention in the world.

T…

It was my dad’s drunken emotional stuntedness and inability to communicate with me that set me up for all the relationships I had with skeevy older guys. I was desperately looking for a male to approve of me, and I sure as hell wasn’t going to get that at home.

I was 13-14 in the mid-70s, and I got a lot of attention from grown men. I was thrilled by it. Boys my age either ignored me, barked at me, or called me names. Adult men talked to me like I was a person, admired me, complemented me. At the time, it was bliss, and I felt it made me special. And thanks mainly to a lack…

I don’t even like the constant use of the term “teenager” to describe her, just because she was thirTEEN. That’s a kid, a little girl. “Teenager” tends to imply a small amount of accountability. A relationship with an 18 year old - notice, not also described as a “teenager” - is not hers to own. She’s the victim of a…

Reading a diary is horribly invasive and psychotic, I’ll give you that. But c’mon, kids have NO good reason to want privacy when it comes to the internet. Kids are dumb. Child predators are smart.

Yes. My mother didn’t set up keylogging or anything, but she did restrict stuff...so I had a friend make me another aol account without the restrictions. She threatened to do keylogging, but she didn’t know how — though she did monitor the hell out of my browsing history. And maybe for some parents, tracking your kid…

And keep the lines of communication open - you can do this by never acting like what you’re being told is stupid or shocking. It may take immense acting skills, but if you want your child to tell you what’s up, do not make them feel like an idiot for telling you.

Counterpoint: I was bullied at school and sought out older guys specifically because I did not have a social life at school.

I just posted a response above how that is not necessarily correct. I know this working for a news station for 10 years.

Actually, you all are incorrect. There have been many times where the reporters have asked for that information where I worked, and sometimes were told the information was under embargo until the next of kin were informed. One of our reporters came to the parents’ door with that information who didn’t know yet.

As former bully (yes I was an awful kid) I kinda disagree. There was a girl I bullied in junior high who ended up being cutter and her friends blamed me when she left school for it. Obviously it wasn’t totally my fault. I mean she had a dad who ignored her, she wasn’t very smart and put into the remedial classes and…

That’s a good point. I have a lot of medical problems, so much of my childhood was spent in the hospital. No matter how sick I was, I was never as sick as the other kids. Many of the kids I met ended up dying, or I’d walk by their rooms and see them hooked up to ventilators and tubes. It really ages you fast. After…

Almost anything can lead a kid to think that. I read and could write on a college level by third grade. It made me think I was ready to read “mature” stories...yeah, long story short it took my 2/3s thru the smut scene to even realize it was porn. Porn I would not have been ready for if I had actually cared (seriously…

Yeah I thought that sounded like a little too easy of an explanation. I was into older guys when I was a teen and snuck around, but I hadn't been bullied, nor did I have an absentee father. I just liked older guys.

So I’m not a fan of Dr. Phil as a person, but I watch his show a lot because he has interesting guests and topics. This episode was heartbreaking, and the father was amazingly forgiving of the police and news for announcing Nicole’s body being found before telling him.