Kudos to you for lasting as long as you did, and for whatever help/justice you were able to provide. I could never, ever, ever do family law like that. I don't think that even the knowledge that I had saved a billion kids from bad parents would offset knowing that I failed to help even one....

Go as Sharknado.

I want to like this show so much, but every time I try and watch it I just want to scream at my TV. The characters are just so dumb! I couldn't make it through season 1.

Well, I'm just basing this opinion on the assumption that — whatever Reilly's shortcomings or flaws over the years — there's no way he'd intentionally quote his own father-in-law as stating the EXACT OPPOSITE of his real opinion on this issue; he had to know what Burns really felt about this. No matter how much of a…

It sounds to me like Burns expressed one opinion to Reilly in a private conversation (which he didn't expect to be quoted in print), and then backpedaled furiously on that opinion once this column was published and the shit hit the fan.

I agree with you, but when it comes to children, I'm not sure "have the power" is enough to use a word like 'rape.' Like, 14 and 8? I can understand that. What about, say, a 9 year old playing sexually with a 5 year old? Clearly, inarguably inappropriate, and it's likely the 9 year old will have significantly more…

I hate to agree, but that is exactly what is happening here.

This isn't the first time Jezebel and Barry have acted as rape apologists. As a male survivor of a female predator, I'm not going to soft-pedal it. I'm sick of it. They are rape apologists. No excuses. No minimizations.

Oh, i agree with you. I do think that people need to realize that just because a person has money doesn't make it easier for them to admit to themselves that they need help. It makes it easy to access but people with issues say that you have to want it to get it. Hopefully he is at that point now.

Yes, and I would add that a lot of adults explain away sexual abuse by imagining they wanted it and/or deserved it. It's a way of exercising some control over a situation where they had none and an attempt to "own" the situation instead of admitting they were victimized. A woman might say, "I was drunk and coming onto…

There are other stories that are very similar to this, sadly.

Jesus, what is it with al the "he was raped" comments? The dude was not raped, nor did he have sex when he was eight. He's a lying piece of shit who brags about how great he is...CONSTANTLY. I seriously doubt he was some great stud at 8. That alone should tell you this story is total bullshit. The dude was probably…

This is profoundly sad. An 8 yr old child in no way is ready to have sex, Chris Brown was raped. The confession doesn't showcase how unpleasant he is, it showcases the defense mechanism he has developed to cope with what happened to him. He does not seem unpleasant, he comes across as someone to be pitied. The…

Holy shit, Jezebel. This is what gives MRAs the tiny amount of ammunition they have. I actually saw a comment saying that just because he was raped, we shouldn't assume he didn't enjoy it. Between that and the comments insinuating (or outright saying) he was lying about it, I'm wondering if some of these guys may or…

Hey folks, this is one of the times where you don't have to preface your sympathy for him by saying, "I hate him but" or "He's a douche but." This is one of the times where you can just be angry and sad for him even though he's Chris Brown. He was raped when he was practically a baby and that is disgusting. You can…

Yah like I'm sitting here watching my almost 8 year old play in the dirt looking for bugs and feel, like this is highly disturbing and sad. I mean PORN as a little kid? Wtf???

Agreed. We all should also not forget that "explains" does not equal "excuses."

As the mother of an almost 8 year old boy I find this story both questionable and deeply disturbing at the same time.

Sounds like he was raped to me. A lot of children explain their rape away by saying they wanted it. It's what they were told, and what they needed to believe to survive.