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She genuinely understands that for as long as she is financially dependent up Aiden she won't be free. That's more insight than I think we've ever seen anyone display on any of the Teen Mom or Unexpected franchises. It does seem as though there is a chance of her achieving financial stability but given the fact that she was raised by two incredibly awful parents her path isn't going to be easy. Her dad had the nerve to state "it's not normal to be that toxic for such a young relationship." He's not wrong about Jenna and Aidan's relationship, but a man who spent his grandchild's baptism whining about his ex wife sitting in the front pew really needs to shut up and not judge anyone else. And speaking of people who need to stop talking, Tiarra chose to ignore her doctor's advice when she didn't take iron supplements. It's too late to whine now about how dangerous this is for her and the baby.

Tiarra claimed in an earlier episode that her lack of a physical social security card was why she could not sign up for health insurance in her current state. I was assuming that she was claiming she needed that for Dee's military insurance. But Dee's interpretation that Tiarra was flying home because she wanted to makes a whole lot more sense, since a routine prenatal visit at a planned parenthood would cost a lot less than 3 round trip plane tickets. Irregardless, she found the card on air a few episodes ago, so hopefully they can put that issue behind them and focus all of their attention on the all important issue of which teenage mother came up with the original design for their second nursery.

Kylen was very much strengthened by Jason's parents understanding that their son is totally wrong here. She was challenging him as much as we've ever seen her do that. This is pretty painful to witness on television, but I hope Kylen is able to watch this show when it airs and understand exactly who Jason is, and that she will run away from Jason. I was glad Kylen's parents were able to tell her through the television show that she can always come back home. They need to keep sending the message that she will always have a home with them, and they will take her back at any time, no questions asked. At this point, I think if this poor girl puts a post on social media asking for help there will be lots of total strangers willing to show up to rescue her and take her home or to a women's shelter for safety. I am quite worried about how Jason will react when he sees this show broadcast - if he worries about her leaving, he will be even more dangerous, and I worry he may take his anger out on her. And Jason's parents raised this monster, so I hope they will take the responsibility of sitting Kylen down alone off camera, and telling her that if she chooses to leave they will understand and be there to support her. She's a pregnant kid, and is terrified and needs as much of a support system as possible. I actually think Jason's parents might be capable of this, since they seem to understand exactly what is going on and realize the seriousness of isolating Kylen from her dad during what might be the last time she can spend with him. And the utter sadness of the fact that instead of spending the end of his life in peace, he is utterly terrified that Kylen isn't safe, and he knows she isn't happy.

On their first date Phillip says, "you're no fun. Actually, that's not true, you're extremely fun." Philip must have had a stroke or a magical invisible lobotomy in between his first and second sentences. His initial assessment was correct. Kate is no fun. She also takes absolutely no responsibility for anything that is her fault, and the fact that the writers magically turned Philip into a puppy dog chasing after her is some of the worst writing I think I've ever seen on network television.

So Tiarra is flying from Maryland to Kentucky with a toddler for routine doctor's appointments and then ignoring the doctor's advice by not taking her iron medication? Maybe these people all reproduce so young because they are too stupid to expect to live long?

Kylen's dad showing the toys he hopes to leave as a legacy to his grandson was truly heartbreaking. And her mother knows she might be completely alone once he passes and if her daughter is still brainwashed or if Palm Tree head hurts her. The reality of this show is such a huge contrast to the Teen Moms who whine about how difficult their lives are in between vacations.

Two young, totally out of control kids by two baby daddies is going to make it awfully hard to catch the next provider, but maybe if he's hoping to land a spot on a reality tv show...

They've laid the groundwork as to Janine having a very absentee mother, and as a child her teachers were her surrogate parents. It could make a very interesting episode to explore this in more depth. I agree that although Ava is totally incompetent, she is also a survivalist and she will probably find some devious way to keep her job.

While anyone would be an improvement over Ava, Greg is emblematic of the kind of person who often gets administrative jobs in schools. Greg has the potential to be a very strong teacher (his students genuinely care about him) but as of right now he quite frankly isn't skilled enough as a classroom teacher to be an effective principal who can help teachers improve. I totally get how hard it would be to work for Ava, but honestly the best thing in the world he could do is put forth the effort into learning how to become a skilled teacher and then he will be able to become a wonderful administrator (I do believe he has a lot of potential for that also). But we have a system in which too many beginning teachers can easily get their administrative credentials without ever truly understanding how to teach who then become middling administrators. In some states, you are required to have a certain number of years experience as a teacher, but unless you learn how to become a skilled teacher first its very hard to be a skilled administrator. It's also extremely concerning how high a percentage of elementary school administrators are male given the demographics of the teaching staff which is overwhelmingly female, although often that is due to the fact that some highly skilled teachers like Barbara don't want to leave the classroom and become administrators.

I don't understand any of this. In addition to the fact that applying for a replacement social security card would have solved this problem, how on earth could it not be cheaper to go to a local planned parenthood as an uninsured patient for a routine pregnancy visit as opposed to flying your pregnant self, your sister roundtrip, and flying with a two year old? The huge bill will be for delivery, but flying back and forth to see the doctor for routine doctor bills isn't going to avoid the delivery bill. And boy did I feel badly for the birthing center employee when Palm Tree head mentioned circumcision and she asked who the pediatrician would be, and the brain dead mom thought she was asking about her own pediatrician. I guess the only good thing about this mess is they don't have to find a new pediatrician, they can just use mom's, and in 13 years hopefully the pediatrician will beg them to give the child birth control. We can only assume Tiarra's baby daddy is correct and she is secretly enjoying going back home to visit her family. Hope they can resolve this (especially since they found the card) before they start weekly appointments.

Today most surrogate use either the egg from the intended parent (mother of the couple paying) or an egg donor. That way neither the egg donor or the surrogate have a clear cut claim for custody. IVF existed in the 80s, but the turkey baster method was (and still is) much less expensive. Most reputable surrogacy agencies require that surrogates have experienced pregnancy, and potential surrogates undergo extensive psychological testing to ensure they can handle following a complicated medical regimen for implantation of an embryo, pregnancy, and then handing the baby over to the intended parents. Throwing money at a random kid on the subway desperate for tuition money is absolutely not acceptable. You need to choose someone who has given this a great deal of thought, and who ideally isn't in a desperate financial situation in which they make decisions they will regret later.

This is actually the NYC MTA policy. Their coin counting machines aren't totally accurate, and it would take forever for the bus driver to argue with every person who is short, plus it is extremely dangerous for drivers to keep arguing with potentially crazy people. They are supposed to let you on the bus if you use any amount of change to protect the driver. When I have a lot of change, I use this because I don't have to go crazy counting out the exact amount - as long as its close, the bus drivers don't even get annoyed. They just want you to move so people can keep boarding and they can stay on time with their route. I read it was the actual MTA policy after some crazy person didn't pay and attacked the driver, who was letting him on without paying but still the guy attacked him. I think its like how most stores tell employees not to stop potential shoplifters - its too dangerous for anyone but security to deal with it.

To be fair, she never asked for the job, and was pretty reluctant to take the job, so it seems pretty likely that she will passive aggressively be a lousy housekeeper (and possibly profit along the way). Someone as uptight and image conscious as Elena would never have someone working for her who didn't really want the job because she would be a nightmare of a boss.

yes. and she said he started with a condom and then took it off. If he did that without consent (which wasn't clear from the interview since the girl has the IQ of salt and thought this was hilarious), that's rape in some states. Palmtree head deserves all the world's scorn that this show will bring him.

So not only has Wheatley's body not been found, but am I the only one who was suspicious that his son might also be alive? I was worried Wheatley staged his son's shooting for the police feed, and the son will join him in his escape/future plans to torture the viewers by coming back on screen.

It's fitting that Murray now looks like a ghost in his edited appearances, because the entire show is just a shadow of what it once was. Pop pop was ultimately the only character anyone could really root for on this show, and watching these awful people rehash the same awful plots is painful.

The writers were probably thinking of a magnet school like Stuyvesant/Bronx Science where you have to take a highly competitive admissions test for admission. Most of the students at Stuyvesant spend years preparing for the entrance exam (although they're not all rich; many students are first generation immigrant students whose parents spend an enormous percentage of their income on tutoring schools to prepare the kids for entrance). The problem is that I don't think that Lanford is within commuting distance of Chicago, so I have no idea how they could have such a competitive magnet high school unless the school was really tiny. 28,000 students take the entrance test for Stuyvesant each year, and approximately 3% of these students are admitted so it is a magnet school academically similar to what Mark seems to be describing. However, I can't imagine there are that many students within commuting distance of a rust belt town that you could have an extremely competitive admissions process into a magnet school. I'm assuming the writers are drawing on their experiences living in NY/SF/LA here, which seems to be a common mistake they make. I could buy the fact that Mark is a good writer even if he struggled with an advanced math and science workload (which would be twice as hard for him if he didn't have the same academic preparation as his classmates), and that the other kids aren't strong writers if they are instead gifted in math/science, but it is utterly moronic that he's reusing the same essays for students from the same school. It's quite common for tutors to be drafted to write college admissions essays, and if these kids are rich they might be quite happy to hire people to write all their big papers/college essays. But there's really nothing keeping Mark from taking community college classes for two years, and then transferring to a good 4 year school. In CA, you can automatically transfer to most of the UC campuses if you complete certain GPA and course requirements at a community college (you still have to apply to UCLA and Berkeley but most of the other UC campuses, including Davis allow you to start at a community college and then transfer over). Mark might even be able to start on those courses during the summer while he is in high school since so many schools have expanded their online course offerings. And this is assuming worst case scenario that he doesn't qualify for financial aid somewhere.

A GED can be used for admission into a community college or bachelor's degree program. If a student graduates from community college or a bachelor's degree program, then it doesn't matter if they had a GED or a high school diploma because all employers will look at is their college degree. If they drop out or don't attend community college, then the fact that they have a GED makes it a little harder to find employment than if they had a high school diploma, since most jobs consider graduating from high school to be a sign of a more reliable worker because you need to be persistent and attend school to graduate from high school (or you did before they allowed online credit recovery). What this really could affect is her college admission prospects. A highly selective college would wonder why a student would leave school early without graduating, and "to follow my boyfriend" is not a good answer. She can absolutely get into a community college, and possibly a less selective 4 year school with a GED, but it would certainly lessen her chances of admission to a selective college straight after high school unless she was doing something more impressive than taking care of her boyfriend's kid. But it certainly is possible for a student to enroll in a community college, do well, transfer to a 4 year school and then apply to med school. In California there is a pathway for automatic transfer into UC Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz for students who do well in community college (You need to apply for admission now to UC Berkeley and UCLA). I taught in the NYC public school system, and had a student once drop out because she got rejected by all her top choice schools. At the time she figured that since the best college she was accepted to was City College, she might as well drop out, get her GED, work for the spring semester of her high school senior year because she'd get into City College with a GED anyway. This was 20 years ago, and I don't know if City College has changed their admissions requirements, but back then her plan worked and she enrolled the following fall at City College with her GED and savings from her spring and summer employment. I told her she'd be fine as long as she graduated from college. She's in trouble if she doesn't, because statistically employers consider GED recipients to be closer to high school dropouts in terms of hiring. I know she enrolled in college, but don't know if she finished.

Rewatching this show, I have to say that the episodes with Violet were some of the funniest (and I think the highlight was her college professor boyfriend's mom coming to dinner). I don't think Roscoe added much to this show, but its disappointing they didn't at least give us an update on Violet. I could have skipped the fighting new drunks in favor of that.

I really hated Brit in the first episode. It was fine for Brit to go up to Sam at the bar and try to start a polite conversation, since its pretty tough to ignore your former friend at a bar. But when Sam went outside completely wasted that was clearly not the time to have a difficult conversation about the end of their friendship/her dating Sam's ex. Sam is - at this exact moment - fired, on probation, fresh out of rehab, completely wasted and living back at home with a very difficult parent. And Brit goes outside and brings up Sam's stint in rehab and offers an insincere apology quickly followed up by defending herself for dating Sam's ex. For the record, I don't actually have a problem with Brit dating Sam's ex as long as they were broken up for awhile before she started dating him. But I do have a huge problem with the fact that Sam blocked her on social media, which made it clear that she didn't want to talk to her, and instead of leaving a drunk person having an incredibly hard time alone like she wants, Brit follows her outside to have a difficult conversation with while she is so drunk she's about to puke. Brit is an engaged doctor, and Sam is currently a hot mess. She's already won and doesn't need to rub it in her face. It's a small town - they'll run into each other again when Sam is sober and they can have this conversation if she genuinely wanted to apologize. Sam is responsible for her choice to drive drunk, but I can honestly understand that she was pretty upset by Brit's passive aggressive nonsense and wanted to leave immediately. She totally should have gone in her friend's lyft, but Brit was pretty awful here. Brit reminded me of when Carrie stalked Natasha to offer her an apology for sleeping with her husband (Carrie was 100% wrong and what Brit did wasn't anywhere near as bad, but she still should have left Sam alone if she made it clear she didn't want to have any contact with her. )

I wonder if she misheard the term person of color and doesn't understand the distinction between the term person of color versus saying colored. It's a really important distinction, but she truly isn't very bright so it seems like it might be an mistake of ignorance, not of malice.

He told the stepdad that if he went to 30 AA meetings in 30 days he'd send him to rehab. The guy was pretty honest about the fact that he wasn't going to get clean because he didn't want to go through withdrawal (can't remember what he was addicted to, but if it's opiods suboxone might be an option.)

ON 11/16/2021 AT 8:56 PM, MR. MINER SAID: I keep tuning in hoping Amber will be euthanized. 🤷🏻‍♂️ We already know the farewell message will be delivered on a couch.

I'm no expert on this, but the Vox article I read stated that she spoke to her son, who was an attorney, and he advised her that lying on a civil deposition carries very different weight than lying to Kenneth Starr's inquiry. So she decided to tell the truth to Kenneth Starr. Because she has consistently stated that she received no compensation in exchange for her silence, she was relegated to an appendix, since the focus of the report was the idea that Monica had been asked to lie to the grand jury and had been given a job at revlon in exchange for her silence. She also stated that Bill Clinton tried to apologize and ask her what he could do to make it right, and she also stated that Hillary Clinton thanked her for her silence. I have no idea if this is true, but the link to the article is here: https://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10722580/bill-clinton-juanita-broaddrick

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