In my case I'd have a BAC of at least .10 after each feeding because my adoptive mom lived on booze.

Many adoptees are horrified by the prospect of our adoptive mothers attempting to "bond" with us via breastfeeding. It's not about using breastmilk, which can be bottle-fed, but forcing an intimate connection on the adoptee under the belief it will somehow mitigate our trauma.

He has claimed it began when she was 21 but also at 19. If the former a 4yr relationship with him would overlap the one with Lizza.

I do as well.

I saw a story of one promoted by an anti-choice org and it looked like a clear case of religious coercion and her being adopted leveraged against her.

I thought this was the worst thing she'd ever written but she apparently got worse, has anyone ever actually read her at all?

I've been annoyed by people acting like she's a good writer for a decade now.

And it's never been the adoptees or our bio parents who have been popular in the public conception of adoption so why should I placate strangers who already look down on me socially?

If he were a good guy she'd be with him and the money!

His criticisms still hold true today.

I know! And, for me, it's even though or because(?) I'm bio related to them.

Yeah and I don't even feel this way about Tesla cars. Possibly because I know one could be from the Obama administration but also because they don't look stupid on principle.

He's not wrong about the ones who continue to support and defend this media.

In his 1971 book Blaming The Victim, William Ryan wrote about how public hospitals had to report the "legitimacy" status of infants but not private ones. That was how many affluent white families hid unwed mothers and kept the children. It also skewed data racially and scapegoated Black mothers.

Always!

She's running for Senate. GA is purple.

I haven't talked to a Republican IRL about anything since the election. I've tried for decades. They need to see for themselves now.

People were still palling around with Epstein right before he went to jail. Harvard people.