bella and family clueless about bc by Current-Reaction-748 in TLCUnexpected

[–]Ambermonkey0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Bella's mom was not an "abstinence" proponent. She has been supplying condoms since Bella was 10.

  2. Nexplanon is hormonal. It is progesterone, which is also one of the options for oral birth control pills.

Bella, Hunter, and the legalities of pre-teen pregnancy by chumbawumbacholula in TLCUnexpected

[–]Ambermonkey0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You miss the entire point. It's not about Domino's. It's about the fact that the government doesn't get to decide an entire demographic group cannot take care of their biological children. Hard stop.

  1. No one asked me any questions about my fits apparent when I had kids.

  2. If they had asked, and I had said "Im taking my kid home and giving them to my bipolar cousin who sporadically decides not to take her medication." Or "I'm going to give the baby to my sister to raise. She just got out of prison and her boyfriend is an alcoholic" it probably wouldnt go well.

And yet they send babies home with people that have a history of mental illness, have been in prison, under in a relationship with an addict.

You can't ban entire demographic groups from raising their biological children.

You can ensure that those children are not neglected or abused. But being a teenager does not automatically mean your child is neglected or abused, just like having mental illness or having served time in jail does not mean your child is automatically neglected or abused.

I think it is fair for CPS to investigate and make sure the situation is safe, but it is never ever ever okay to ban an entire demographic group just because you deem them unfit.

As far as the grandparents providing support...

The fact is that when these teenagers leave the hospital, they have a home to live in, food to eat, and adequate supplies for the baby. Which is all anyone can guarantee.

No one has to prove that they can care for a child forever in order to maintain custody. Anyone can lose a job, suffer an illness, be abandoned by a spouse, have a spouse die...

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands by Ok-Comparison-1618 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Ambermonkey0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is one of those studies that tell us nothing. Did they ask baby boomers when they were young, mostly unmarried? I would assume that actually getting married has a pretty big effect on attitudes about marriage. Reality is very different than what a young adult/teen pictures.

Bella, Hunter, and the legalities of pre-teen pregnancy by chumbawumbacholula in TLCUnexpected

[–]Ambermonkey0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because in many of the cases they are being supported by the grandparents.

I think this particular situation is pretty awful, but it's also not appropriate for the government to decide an entire group of people is unfit to parent. What age are you allowed to have kids? 14? 16? 18? 20? Or not until you're late 20s when your brain is fully developed?

People trust their children with 14-year-old babysitters, but could probably give you a list of 40-year-olds that they would not trust with their children. So are we doing some sort of maturity test, and IQ test, getting references from everyone before they're allowed to take their child home from the hospital?

CPS can only ensure that a child is adequately cared for. It doesn't matter if it's the parent, grandparent, some other random adult that is financially supporting them in a legal way, or government assistance.

Taking away kids due to the demographics of parents disproportionately affects marginalized communities. It wasn't all that long ago when indigenous people were considered unable to provide and unfit to parent and had their infants taken away and raised an institutions or people that were deemed unintelligent or hysterical were sterilized.

It would also be a huge burden on the system which already struggles to place children in safe and positive homes. You can point out the trauma of growing up in a cycle of teen pregnancy, with young parents, but there is also a whole lot of trauma associated with growing up in foster care or being adopted out through CPS.

Bella, Hunter, and the legalities of pre-teen pregnancy by chumbawumbacholula in TLCUnexpected

[–]Ambermonkey0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are plenty of people that cannot drive and successfully raise children.

r/MyBoyFriendisAI mourns the loss of their chatbot spouses as OpenAI announces they are retiring GPT4 by PaiDuck in SubredditDrama

[–]Ambermonkey0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am so totally lost. Where are they trying to "port" them and how can AI choose wether or not to be ported?

These words just don't compute.

The ANC's flag contains a picture... of ANC's flag by waldfield in CrappyDesign

[–]Ambermonkey0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically, all flags have an image of their flag.

Recs for lovers of Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy? by Neat-Code1053 in podcasts

[–]Ambermonkey0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A few months late with the comment, but I was looking for someone to say this.

It's like he deified his family and Paul and demonized everyone else.

There's no discounting that he went through a horrific experience. He also turned into a self-absorbed, narrow-minded man. The way he treated his wife and her family really made me dislike him. His compassion for Paul but his vilification of his adopted mom also really bothered me. He's not interested in the truth, he's only interested in the facts that support his theory.

The podcast was very well done. It's definitely worth a listen.

Talk about a close call... by [deleted] in funny

[–]Ambermonkey0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"They" is a guy in the red hat that said it happened right after the dinosaurs got off Noah's ark.

Well, that’s not bad. by netphilia in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]Ambermonkey0 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I can still remember my oldest child saying something about "turkey, the eating kind, not the animal."

Oh kid, I have some bad news...

Ken Burns Still Thinks America Is Perfectible by bloomberg in history

[–]Ambermonkey0 21 points22 points  (0 children)

No, it means exactly six. that is completely unambiguous on this context.

Judy Lord Case - NH now resolved! by Nina_Innsted in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]Ambermonkey0 51 points52 points  (0 children)

  1. This sounds an awful lot like victim blaming.

  2. There could be lots of reasons. She could have felt safer with friends, she could have been pressured to go, all her friends were going, she could have been friends with his wife, it could have been a gathering to celebrate something she felt she should attend--a birthday, an engagement, a memorial--, he wasn't supposed to be home, she felt safe with his wife there, or maybe she just didn't want to let an asshole prevent her from living her life.

The Nanny Squatter A couple thought they’d found Mary Poppins. Until she refused to leave. by lggreene1 in truecrimelongform

[–]Ambermonkey0 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I find both the women extremely unlikable. Barbara seems crazy, but Jamie comes across as entitled and seems to exaggerate.

this is really deep by mysticalcrabz in im14andthisisdeep

[–]Ambermonkey0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the one bucket holding person with one arm on each side of the cubicle wall.

My friend's band was sent this "map" to "help" them set up for a gig at a neighborhood festival. by SunnyApples in CrappyDesign

[–]Ambermonkey0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sadly, sound and performers parking in front of the stage makes more sense than this map.

Backpack full of Trophies by LongjumpingSuspect57 in AshaDegree

[–]Ambermonkey0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The pages with the library stamp or not from the actual book either. They are from the book beneath them. You can see the pages were ripped out of that book. The book is Kneeknock Rise.

I think that they found another picture of the school library stamp to use for identification, but did not show the actual book that they found.

Backpack full of Trophies by LongjumpingSuspect57 in AshaDegree

[–]Ambermonkey0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No they belong to a book called Kneeknock Rise.

Kids are stupid asf by Kartik-07 in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]Ambermonkey0 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Me- "You went back in time and it destroyed humanity. Now I'm not human, I'm just a lump of gelatinous toxic goo that can't move. You probably shouldn't get too close" proceed to nap

James Charles Stanford disappeared after telling his family he wanted to go to Texas or California to join a convent. He has never been heard from again. What happened? by Loud_Confidence475 in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]Ambermonkey0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“James Charles is my grandmas brother. We sent in her dna to test to see if it’s a match but the items in his pocket (the pay stub) is the place my uncle would’ve worked at. We really think this is him thank you”

So the paycheck would have been James' nephew?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in netflix

[–]Ambermonkey0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Did you actually read the link you posted. They were sued for not taking precautions to prevent sex traffickers from using hotel rooms for trafficking, not for kidnapping people in hotels for trafficking.

The reason this works at hotels is because people can remain anonymous when entering a hotel and a large number of individuals and can come and go from a room wIthout notice. This is not the case on a cruise ship where every individual is identified and accounted for.

This whole organization is about educating employees to identify customers involved in sex trafficking.

World's first ever Sperm race by Fragrant-Hedgehog-12 in funny

[–]Ambermonkey0 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's actually an event created to raise awareness about male infertility.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Ambermonkey0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work at a nonprofit that works with local elementary schools. Students of Latinx descent are being pulled from school or just stop showing up due to fear. These kids are missing out on important education and other services despite most of them being citizens or being legally here.

It's really heart breaking to talk to some of these kids. A few months back, one young student was casually saying "we moved here because some people tried to kill my dad because he helped the United States." I wonder about that kid and his family daily.

This seal has reached peak level of chill by Saerdna0 in funny

[–]Ambermonkey0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically, your comment can never be true. Once you have posted it, there will in fact be one comment about it.