u/OrthodoxAnarchoMom

If Taylor Swift’s prenup says she can’t release any negative songs about her husband could a family court judge order her not to do so? Assume “negative” is more fleshed out and not in any real dispute. Could the judge order her not to release such a song under penalty of contempt, or would that be prior restraint, a doctrine which was ruled to restrain the government from prohibiting the New York Times from releasing the Pentagon Papers, which is quite extreme. After the fact it would just be damages which she probably would just be willing to pay.

My son just took the Iowa test. He’s 6 and just finished 1st grade. He took the paper test as that’s what’s available at this grade.

Some of the bubbles he filled in are visible through the page. Some are indented. Some of the bubbles are getting pencil on them from the opposite page. Can the scanner distinguish between these things? Or do I need to order a replacement booklet?

Thinking about that time I used to volunteer at a Catholic School and ended up having to make a report for the type of crime that lands you on lists. (I’m not Catholic anymore but want to point out that the perpetrator was the mom’s current lay and not another staff.) Relevant, I am female and was about 20 when this happened. The cop who initially showed up called in his supervisor. Made enough sense to me at the time. Supervisor doesn’t want to hear it. “Isn’t that confidential?” So we have to explain to him that no, no, I’m definitely not a priest and we definitely want to report it. The first officer has to convince him to take the report.

I don’t know his rank or title but he was old enough and a cop long enough to have subordinates and someone calls him and says we want to report this child being r—— and he’s basically “are you sure? What if you don’t want to report it tho?” Tf is wrong with these people?

Abeka sells elementary “science” textbooks. They are young earth creationists. It’s their 1st Amendment right to be a dumbass. It’s probably their 1st Amendment right to deny ape (other ape) to human evolution in their textbooks. BUT they then write alternative biology, alternative chemistry (gotta get around radioactive decay timelines), alternative geology, alternative electromagnetic fields, etc. They just whole cloth make shit up in basically fully fleshed out detailed fantasy science that they sell as elementary science textbooks. It would be like if someone wrote out in detail the insides of DND creatures and sold that as a real biology book. Of course Abeka had/has no obligation to provide me or anyone else with a science education as they don’t take students, but can students subjected to these textbooks marketed as science textbooks sue Abeka for wasting our time?

I don’t want to actually do this. It would be too much of a pita and I could never prove these textbooks were used on me. I just wanna complain.

My son’s pediatrician wants to have him assessed for autism. Ok fair. But then she starts asking questions. You the doctor, so also fair. Until she gets to empathy. This woman who went to undergrad, passed medical school, and managed to do a pediatric residency then declares that autistic people can’t have empathy and have I seen him be empathetic. No possibility this NT proclamation is insulting or that a highly educated woman should be able to figure that out. No possible way that the mom of a suspected autistic kid is autistic.

She even gives all the vaccines that make us more logical and able to empathize with people who aren’t exactly like us. Maybe the ones she got didn’t have enough preservatives.

This is kinder dance so kids are 3-5. My daughter was born in recital month. Rehearsal is a Monday, then the weekend is recital. The weekend after is Father’s Day. I am wanting to plan my daughter’s party the Sunday the day before rehearsal and we will be inviting the dance class. Would this stop you from going? They’re 3-5 so they don’t really practice incessantly like the older classes.

We’re needing to budget into the future and I’m going to need to make an argument against career stagnation tbh. Our oldest is 1st grade. To me, this is the cheapest ages. We pay for diapers for the toddler, cubscouts with one annual event, kinder dance, $1 Walmart clothes, etc. Elementary age will cost more and teens from what I can tell is just like supporting another adult if not more.

Their clothes will get more expensive because kid and adult sizes cost more. They will eat more. Their books will cost more. More gas. Even just one activity per kid will be more expensive. Higher water bill, higher heating oil (hot water) bill, phones, adult size beds, higher schooling costs, etc.

What was an expense that was unexpected or subtle that we should prepare for?

Reliable birth control is very new and birth control at all is relatively new. But historically women weren’t having 30 kids, one a year from puberty until menopause. Are we more fertile now? Access to food and lower stress maybe?