[Trigger warning: anti-gay violence ( Read more... )

[Note: Although this can be read as a stand-alone, why would you want to? :) LJ Idol is doing the Intersection Thing this week, and my beloved spouse (
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( It's all in a day's work - glimpses into a world completely unlike the one I grew up in. Usual work-related warnings for nightmare fuel apply. )

LEARN TO MATH!

( rant regarding clueless media coverage about the cost of juvenile residential programs )

[Food/weight/ED trigger warning. Also CPS-related ranting.]

"News" stories like this need to stop.

( Why? )

( trigger warning for eating disorder-related content - also, breastfeeding-related TMI, in case you want to avoid that )

This is one of those things that is hard to talk about, especially out here in public like this, but that should be talked about, both for my own sake and for the potential sake of anyone else who might someday be in a similar situation sooner than they're sittin' here thinkin' (as Arlo Guthrie would say).

( The saga of last winter. Trigger warning for scary medical emergency and for false allegations of sexual abuse of a small child. )

My in-laws, it seems, don't quite inhabit the same reality that my husband and I do.

( trigger warning for various forms of creepy and crazy )

Seven-year-old Lydia Schatz, it is alleged, died for mispronouncing a word.

( Warning: horrific child abuse discussed at linked article as well as behind cut. )

( WARNING: Somewhat graphic discussion of physical and sexual abuse. Exactly As It Says On The Tin. )