naw he didn’t invent yoga - he just turned up the thermostat and tried to “trademark” that

a ‘namaste’ f*ckwit

“Hey, what image does the words ‘intensely creepy crowd situation, do not want’ bring to mind?”

My sister’s IQ is about 65. She’s very high functioning in some areas, very low in others. She does well enough to live on her own, but just barely. She forgets to take medication, struggles with simple cooking directions, etc. She actually conceived several times but miscarried. I do not believe that her body was…

I think it’s okay to offend adults when children are involved. No child deserves to be treated like a learning experience for an adult who isn’t competent.

How was that not brought up in the write-up? That seems SUPER-relevant. :-/

In an ideal world, the foster parents would teach her how to care for her baby but it’s not an ideal world. It’s the real world. In the real world, foster parents have their own kids and work and lives to attend to. It’s not their job to educate the biological mother on how to care for her child - it’s just not. If…

It was more than that she missed a feeding and had trouble with the diaper:

Unpopular opinion: I think calling child services was the right choice. I have a relative with a similar IQ who was the single parent of his daughter, and she turned out alive...but not great. She did not have the kind of advocate a child with a typically-abled parent would. Kids need more than to be fed, clothed, and…

I completely agree with you. I used to work with the courts and parents to keep parental rights. It was a case just like this, only with a different ending that was one of a couple that caused me to quit. A young woman just like this, but with no family had a child. The father was no where. I was sent in to evaluate.…

Sara’s father may have sexually abused her when she was 4. Given Sara’s IQ, Dana is a product of rape/iffy consent. Yeah, let’s let another little girl live in that home.

I can’t say I disagree with DCF’s original assessment. Read the linked article: as a child, Sara was removed from her parents’ home because her father was violent and may have sexually abused her. Sending a new baby girl into that home without a second thought would be horribly short-sighted. Additionally, reading…

Honestly, the record her family has concerns me, and I think I would also have sided with DCF on this up and until she took those classes and proved her competency. DCF is spread thin as it is, and I don’t think daily visits are in the cards or budget for anyone.

I agree that her only getting 2 hours a month to see her baby is bullshit, though I’m inclined to believe there is a lot more to the story than we know especially if her own parents were sketchy and in the system themselves.

Sigh. I have a learning-disabled parent with a below-average IQ. Not 70, but not great. I have a lot of feelings about this article but I’ll sum it up with, “I think intellectually disabled people can be great parents, but they are also not always ideal parents and their children will face many, many hurdles that go…

(Sara’s parents, additionally, had a history of DCF investigation and intervention in the ‘90s, and weren’t the most fit secondary choices, either.)

I feel bad for DCF; they are always second-guessed by everyone. “Why did you take the kids away?” “Why didn’t you take the kids away?” They can’t win. In this case while it’s possible that they and the judge made the wrong decision it definitely sounds like a close call to me. The DCF SHOULD intervene with a woman…

DCF workers don’t have any right to refusal and have to take all cases which does result in overburdening. I wish people who get angry at situations like these would think that part of the problem is a resource and training issue and maybe go beyond anger and think about how the system needs to change.

I feel for her and while I’m glad she got her daughter back, the state and the hospital were doing their job, which was to protect the child. I’m a pediatrician and see many parents who, to be completely honest, shouldn’t be taking care of their children without help. I’m not saying everyone with some developmental…

I know that I can’t keep any facts or figures in my head if I’m not cupping a nice pair of PHD balls. I’m sure I’m not alone in that?

I’m a bartender. Good money but, at times, crazy people don’t make it worth it.