Raised catholic and sent to church camp. Got the flu in the cabins and had nothing else to do but read the Bible, over and over. Afterwards I had questions. “Dad, how can you believe that you should love your neighbor, but you openly hate LGBTQ+ peoples and actively refuse them rights?”…
I met my husband at 17 (now 35, 13yrs married); got thrown together on dates with my friend and his, whose relationship lasted <1mo. By then I’d accepted the pattern and agreed to settle because we were both leaving for college soon.
In the following years I realized I’d loved him…
No one ever believes this story, but LeBron James in his high school years at St. Vincent/St. Mary’s mercilessly bullied any LGBTQ+ person he stumbled upon, including a girl Kim, who at the time identified as lesbian, that I personally witnessed. His bullying tactics ranged from verbal…
My brother in law moved to japan and his wife and son were born there. When they come to visit, his wife struggles a lot, and I understand why: American culture normalizes violation of children’s autonomy. If a baby is in a room, Americans—primarily family and friends—tend to or even…
I’m so sorry you experienced this type of heartache. At the same time, I never think RAD diagnosis is a reason to run. Mental health diagnoses are murky waters when it comes to kiddos in foster care; a lot of children are misdiagnosed or labeled negatively due to their symptoms. I’ve…
@No - That’s a very astute comment, actually! It highlights how the handling of foster parent licensure differs from county to county and among states. As mentioned in my comment, my county made us play a waiting game (not maliciously; just wanted to be extra careful due to recent…
Becoming a licensed foster or adoptive parent is hard AF, especially if you have any mental health diagnoses. In a world where basically every human on the planet can be diagnosed with some form of mental health issue, still most counties will intentionally make the process more difficult…
Foster/adopt/respite parents here, specializing & highly trained in teens, with current goal of adopting at least one kiddo sometime soon (have no other bio or adoptive kids in the home; in our early 30s). 3 tips we have for people who ask:
1. Unfortunate truth: some caseworkers do…
My mum came from extreme poverty, but married my dad who “pulled himself up by his bootstraps” and became very wealthy, which is a statistical anomaly and not a sociological theory I endorse. My mum I guess eventually forgot where she came from and how people from hard places suffer—or…
If there’s a really eye-catching scene in the trailer (the type of scene that solely by itself makes you undeniably intrigued) that you later read or find out via watching was cut from the theatrical release film ... it is 100% going to disappoint you.
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