How many stars can I give you? One is not enough.

Proper training and *pay*. Parental leave is also important, but we really need subsidized childcare so that workers can be paid more. You earn about the same at Burger King and it is much harder to kill a baby there.

Fair point.

This. And the room was extremely crowded on top of all that. What would you do, shout to everyone to duck? Bastards.

Yes, this was my reaction as well.

of course I have compassion, but that doesn’t mean I can’t critique the article. this is a legit issue on our country, but this isn’t why.

This headline is frankly kind of shitty. Even the mother in this case says she has no idea if she could have prevented his death. I am all for better parental leave policies and some national standard that keeps people in lower income jobs or certain states from being screwed over financially after having an infant,…

This article is ridiculous. I am all for paid family leave, but the idea that this baby died because his parents had to go back to work is resorting to the worst sort of fear mongering. Many parents choose to go back to work because they want to. Would this mother still have the same reaction if she wanted to be at…

I’m not quite seeing how better parental leave policies - which I support - would be the answer here. At some point, unless a parent decides to be a stay-at-home parent at least until the kid is school age, won’t a parent have to rely on daycare/babysitting/etc. where a child’s death is possible (if rare)?

It also sounds like a problem with our healthcare system that she couldn’t leave her job because she was the one with the benefits.

Main point check. America needs to get with the rest of the developed world on paid family leave slash parental care. All those lobbying groups with ‘family’ in their name should get over gay people for just one brief moment and fight for actual family issues like this one.

Jerking off to the thought of denying refugee children entry to America.

This is tragic of course but I really hate the whole “You’re leaving your baby with STRANGERS!!!” Um... no my husband and I actually visited the daycare, met the caregivers and did our research on whether or not the facility was licensed/the policies they follow. My daughter is now 2. She loves her caregivers. They…

Bless you, you tiny tiny man. Own your smallness. When you and the Hemsworths get stuck underground while spelunking, you’ll be the only one able to fit through the keyhole to the outside world, so revel in that.

In that case it wouldn’t have even gotten to a hostage situation. As soon as they took fire they would have killed every single person they saw. In this case police were able to free at least 100 people (not counting those who escaped on their own).

Maybe the Biebz just thinks Charlie Sheen is a dick (like the rest of us), regardless of status.

No see we only have them in areas where no one is armed, like southwestern Virginia or Arizona.

Now, if you had 25 people in there that had guns, okay? It would have been a totally different story, folks. There would have been the shootout at the O.K. Corral.

He basically referred to his domestic violence cases as extortion as well. He seems to think that women holding him accountable for harming them is just them trying to steal his money.

“Now, if you had 25 people in there that had guns, okay? It would have been a totally different story, folks. There would have been the shootout at the O.K. Corral.”