Okay, this has got to stop.

They are paid for every hour, 24/7. This means that they are paid even when they are sleeping, though they remain on call at all hours. Further, it seems that their room and board are also covered, so all of the money they make is theirs to take home (or, more likely, to send to their families).

Oh god no, no, no. #Nannygate has reached jezebel now?
No. I refuse.

It’s true. I think my parents waiting about 5 years for me to come along. They knew they wanted two kids so they immediately put in an application for another child when they got me and were SUPER lucky to only wait 18 mos for my brother. He was like the adoption equivalent of an “oops” baby in that they were not at…

Mr. Pixel and I share a bedroom, but we have separate bathrooms and separate closets. We each also have one room in the house that is ours for whatever we want, and the other person doesn’t go in there. It is nice.

Everything you wrote plus a very real fear of all the bad things that could happen to them as a child or adult and being truthful to myself that I’m too selfish to want to deal with that pain of seeing someone I love suffer or die.

As Katherine Hepburn characterized the perfect marriage: Two houses with a little lane between.

Dude, you need to chill the fuck out and try to remember that not everything you read in the comments section is literal. Also, you need to realize that I am in no way responsible for ANY aspect of your adoption/childbearing journey, and have no need to trip over myself apologizing over anything in regards to my…

Because if you want to thoroughly damage a kid, between 0-5 is when you do it. Many kids in the fostersystem are very damaged, and adoptive parents can be wary of taking on the challenge. I don’t blame them. Trying to mend a broken kid takes a lot more than love and enthusiasm. It can be done, but it takes a lot of…

This is why I always admired the Burtons' setup. Tim Burton had one wing of the house, Helena Bonham-Carter had another, and I think the kids were based in the centre, where they'd come together.

I have cousins that adopted a child with an attachment disorder. After 13 years of doing absolutely everything for her, to treat her, they ended up having to give her up again. She kept trying to kill her sister, who was the same age, and her father. Like, not beat them up, but literally kill them. No amount of…

but seriously, we are all goddamned ADULTS! Our own bedrooms should be a fucking perk of being an adult.

There are 5 kids with attachment disorders in one of my classes this year, they’re the toughest I’ve had in my career. It is very sad.

Well, have you worked with many foster kids? A lot of them have really serious emotional (and sometimes physical) problems. It's heartbreaking, and all children deserve a loving home, and I think it is wonderful that Bullock has done this- especially since she has the resources to help the little girl out with any…

My dream marriage definitely includes separate bathrooms and maybe separate apartments.

An older kid in foster care has probably been through a lot, that a baby hasn’t gone through. Things that many parents don’t feel equipped to handle.

If I had as much money as Bey and Jay I would have TWO ROOM PER PERSON. TWO ROOMS AND AN EN SUITE EACH. Because why have that much money and still share a bed with someone when you can have a triple king size and your own clubhouse all to yourself?

I probably shouldn’t get married.

I’ve NEVER understood that. Listen, I have a kid...and she was absolutely inconsolable and WORTHLESS from birth until at least 5 or so. I would’ve gladly skipped those years in which I had to do every single little thing for her. WHY DON’T PEOPLE APPRECIATE OLDER KIDS MORE?!?!?!

So what happens fifty years from now when inheritance is non-existent? What do you have to work towards? The state will just come in and take everything anyway, so what’s the point of having any type of ambition whatsoever? It sounds like a BS line to say that more state support equals less drive in terms of…