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Gotta love it here.
They don't want you to smoke weed. Or take opium. Or barturates. It's illegal and bad.
But as long as it's prescription, any emotional or psychological ailment or impairment can be cured by popping a pill.
Small time dealers rot away in jail on drug charges.
While the big time dealers (d… Continue

Daughters

For parents, daughters convey both a sense of pride and a sense of fear

In your mind's eye you see your beautiful little girl in hair bows and pretty clothes
And you wonder how and if you'll be able to protect her from the double standards, misogyny, abuse, and sexism that she'll come to know, that the world will show.

Women and girls traded, bartered, sold and treated like property

A price placed on their virginity and chastity

Fighting for the rights to be equally valued and to… Continue

So two of my children are back home. The son came home in July and oldest daughter came home in October. Now I'm working on the two youngest who are in a foster home together. I have court scheduled in December but they may come this month of November. We have weekend visits with them and it's going well - even tho I get very short tempered at the daddy and at the daily stuff I have to do when it comes to taking care of kids. I swear I wish I could be the non-custodial parent and let their daddy… Continue

Despite the contrary, there is no difference in the methods of teaching sex to girls and boys sbout sex.
I teach my children that they will make their own decisions about when to have sex and what that experience will be like, and when or if they will do drugs, alcohol, or tobacco.
I teach that as their parent(s), I am here to guide them - not control them or their decisions. Many parents say 'well I can't be around my kids 24/7 and they will do what they want anyway.' That's true, but I know fo… Continue

Newsflash (for some) Birth control doesn't prevent unplanned pregnancies. Really, it doesn't.

I despise the 'abstinence only' education that the religious right is pooring money into because it doesn't address major sexual education that kids needs.

But there has to be something more to 'keep your legs close, don't have sex, and I'm putting you on BC' mantra that parents keep and keep on doing. Teens aren't taught a dam thing about sexual education but parents keep putting their daughters on b… Continue