Most places, if you are in an apartment the only thing you can do is report the plate number (or the person if you know who it is) to management. Most of the time, they wont do anything about it though, and sometimes, they will actually mark YOUR name down as a trouble causer

lol

I took several years off, then came back under the new profile (since I moved, and so much has changed the old one just didn't seem accurate any more; plus I couldnt remember the log in information lol)

I think of single moms, the same way I think of single fathers: there is no such thing when you let go of all the bias and negativity. There are only single parents. and THIS is what I think of single parents:


The MAJORITY of us are hard working, self-sacrificing, individuals who do our best to try and ensure our children grow up to have more and better options. there are a few of us single parents however, that abuse the system, look for ways to get more "assistance", bash the other parent, etc.

I have been divorced for 11 years now and I cannot say that the loneliness ever fades. I HAVE learned how to cope with it (the kids hate my newest project; learning how to can and preserve our food cause they hate washing all those jars lol). However, I am still extremely lonely and as I am fairly picky over who I will consider as a potential match (not in regards to physical attributes, but the type of person she is or is not; how she holds herself both in private and in public; her personality, etc), I have had an extremely hard time finding that one person.

Chin up though because as time goes on, you will find your own coping methods, some of which will more likely than not annoy your children lol. They don't make things better, but they do help.

Thankfully that has been abolished here in the United States (in regards to dating a woman who has kids). Now, if you are in a relationship with a lady here and she becomes pregnant with another mans child, depending on where you are at, you wills till be held liable as the father, even with dna testing showing you are no relation, but only if you were with the woman when she concepted. This is being fought in courts as we speak, but it is a very slow process and certain political figures do not want to change things which would put fathers on a more equal footing in regards to rights and treatment.

it's time for you to wake up Estelle and open your eyes to reality. I am a single (American) father by divorce. I have 100% sole physical and legal custody. Even though child support was granted to me from the court at the divorce and even though she had signed a notary to agree to $300 child support per month, with a $1350 a month income, the court lowered her child support to only $67. If it had been the normal events and she received sole custody, I would have been paying almost $600 per month out of that $1350. It took me five years to get the courts to agree to an increase in her child support. It took another five years after that to get her to pay 25% of her total income which by that point was pushing $80k per year. She STILL does not have htem on her work insurance even though it has been available for four years and the courts STILL have not brought her in and charged her with contempt or negligence (which they would have after one month if it had been me).

Plain and simple, men do NOT receive 50% of ANYTHING in America when it comes to divorce or children.

I have not finished going through the responses yet, but you can chalk me up as one of the extremely rare American single dads (through divorce). I won't put her history up here (that's just plain rude and degrading but the basics are that when I applied for divorce, I was granted immediate emergency custody (physical and legal). I filed in August of 2005, on my own without use of a lawyer and 6 months later the gavel came down awarding me every single thing I asked for, including sole physical and legal custody and her having supervised visitation only. The court even awarded me child support from her though it took another 5 years to get it above $69 a month and another five years to get it up to a reasonable 25% of her total income (which has been close to $80k per year for the past five years).

I was forced for many years to accept welfare and food stamps. This will be my first full year with NO assistance whatsoever and she STILL only has supervised visitation at my discretion.

With all of that said, I have absolutely no qualms with dating a single mother; however, one of the things I insist on being understood from the beginning, is that we move forward with the understanding that I am looking for marriage and I expect her to be just as active with my kids as I will be with hers. There will be none of the "these are my kids, you butt out". If we are to make it work and work well for everyone involved then we BOTH have to be a full parent to all the kids in the house, regardless of who "donated" towards their existence and who didn't. This includes supporting each other 100% in regards to discipline as well as with rewards; sharing taxi duty when they have extra activities. One of us staying home while the other works (if at all possible), DEFINITELY one of us staying home if one of them is sick.

I think you get the idea :D I believe in 100% total family, not divisions or "his and hers" ;-)

Dont forget Alan rickman too :'(

I know what you mean. When we were living in base housing (or even when I owned property off base) if we had a problem, I knocked on the door (we were normally friends anyway) asked them to lower it down (or at least be considerate enough to invite me as well) no problem. Only two times, in roughly 6 years, did I have a problem; two different bases. The first one turned his music up LOUDER at 2am; I called his plt sgt, whom I went fishing with on a regular basis. Never happened again, lol. The second one was right after I left the army. My fiance's platoon sgt tried shoving her way into my private residence off base. I threw her on her butt and called the state police, filing assault charges and attempted B&E. never had another problem. When she followed us on assignment to Hawaii and got assigned to my wife's unit, the paperwork came up and she got REASSIGNED in order to keep her out of my wifes chain of command.

however, now that I am out, I have had a fairly difficult time regarding unpleasant neighbors. The one that makes me shudder the most was the mother who knocked her two year old son over, then stepped over him to try and stab her boyfriend on their front walk as he was trying to leave. I called the cops and what did they do? They arrested the boyfriend because when she charged him a second time, he tripped her and put his knees across her arms until she let go of the knife; then kicked the knife away from her as he got back up and tried to leave again. She jumped on top of him and was beating on him. And this was all because she thought he had cheated on her (turns out the "girlfriend" was his sister that she had never met). yet they arrested HIM. 17 witnesses to it all, all 17 of us told the police exactly what happened; the boyfriend was arrested and charged with domestic disturbance and assault.

so far there have been 3 winners (California, Tennessee and Florida, along with 5 more tickets in California that matched five of the numbers.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/powerball-lottery-drawing-record-15b-jackpot-tonight/story?id=36275166

Yes "some" are government owned. but guess what? That does ntomean theya re not privately operated and controlled...

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27138-public-prisons-private-profits


After reading this (and any number of other links you care to google for yourself), you will see that prison is NOT government controlled any more, nor does it follow constitutional laws.


note: yes, I personally think someone in prison should be inside a cell, with only a yard for exercise. LIMITED commisary allowances (for extra hygiene items, basically) and NO televisions or radios, etc; especially not PERSONAL tv;s or radios. But on the flipside, they should also have basic medical care (no this does not mean the state pays for gender reassignment surgery or any other nonsense such as that). If their family wants to send money for the commisary, then they should get ALL of that money, minus the cost of a stamp and envelope, not be charged exhorbitant fees.

There is a lot of abuse in our prison system, and it is ALL linked back to privatized care and/or accessories (for lack of a better term)

Makes me think of the barracks rooms I had to share while active duty in the army. defintely NOT something that would be "reasonable" for the average person.

Bull Pucky. Yes I said it, and I will say it again, bull pucky. yes, bad parenting is accountable for a SMALL percent but not the majority. What YOU call bad parenting is actually scared parenting. You know, those who are afraid to bust their kids arse (figuratively speaking of course) because they may go to prison for twenty years to life?

When it comes to prison, the biggest issue today is profit, yes. More andmore people are neing arrested that should not be, in order to bring in more money to the PRIVATE prison systems.

Good example: I heard on the local news today as I turned the tv on that a guy was being searched for (and had an APB out) for escaping PRISON; he was incarcerated for multiple traffic violations.

Now tell me: what business do we have locking people up in prison (hell, even in jail) for traffic violations? And don't tell me traffic violations could be DUI's. If they were, you know as well as I do the news would have said so.

Come ON ALREADY, This is just way too damned EARLY!!!

By changing who goes to prison, what they go in for, how long they go in for, etc... You ARE reforming prison. Right now prison is a private, very lucrative, business. It is privately owned, and the owners are greasing the congressman's pockets to get favor towards specific laws and legislation that would put even more people behind bars and keep people behind bars for life so as to continue bringing in the American dollar to the owners of said business. Thus if you change who, when, where, why and how people go to prison, you cause reform at the same time ;-)

Not true. At least not in the beginning when she was first arrested for contempt. She was offered the opportunity to not sign them herself, but to just have the office stamp them official. She refused to allow that to happen because the "stamp" was a stamp of her name, thus giving indication that SHE authorized it. When the judge arrested her for contempt, he ordered all clerks to start issuing license to ANYONE that legally applied. Her son continued to refuse to do this, and as far as I have seen he was allowed to do so, so long as he did not block others from doing so. When the judge released her, it was on condition that she do nothing to prevent the certificates from being issues or stamped. She agreed to comply, but within days of her release she filed another appeal, as well, I believe, as claims of discrimination, etc. I have not heard anything since then though, so dont know what has happened after that.

I am not saying there isn't but I have yet to find any objection to same sex marriage that is not in fact religious based. However with that said, in the point of this article it IS religious based because Mrs. Davis specifically states that she will not do it because it would violate God's commandments.

I agree that in regards to a civil union, it would not violate anything, however Ms. Davis would still stand up and refuse, claiming that by signing the civil union papers, she wuuld be endorsing sexual relations between two men or two women and thus she would be violating God's commandments.

As far as the grandfather clause is concerned, no that can not be used in this case, because Mrs. Davis is required to have her name stamped to all marriage (or civil union) documents, thus bringing up her dissent. And furthermore, I personally do not agree with a grandfather clause when it comes to changes in the administration of the law. By running for office and accepting the popular vote, Mrs. Davis agreed by oath to obey all laws both present AND FUTURE; It's the "and future" that she doesn't like, because she does not want to do something she considers to be wrong. And very simply, she always has the option to step down. Nobody would bat an eye if she had, even if she did so while spouting off about it being due tot he abomination of the united states and what it has become.

Outside of her recording her session with the principle, I have not seen anything saying she posted during school hours. With that said, this doesn't mean she didn't. But either way, so long as she used her phone (which schools can not legally ban, sadly) it still is untouchable by the school unless she involves the school itself somehow (like saying those of us at such and such school believe.....). You can argue all you want, but this has been decided in the supreme court numerous times when parents sued the school for removing the child's phone on the basis the kid needed a private way to call mommy and daddy at any time of the day.

As far as recording the school official, it falls under whether she got his permission or not (I would presume not). And even then, because he violated her fourth amendment by seizing her personal phone and searching through it (instead of using his or a school's computer) the post that he found can not be used against her in a court of law. Again, the supreme court has deemed that personal belongings may NOT be searched on school grounds without either permission, a warrant (which has to be executed by the police, not the school admin) or reasonable evidence there is a problem, such as the police bringing a police dog in for an assembly and the dog going berserk.

The school CAN search lockers without permission, but again if your bag is in the locker, they can not open it without following the law. They can only move it aside to look around and under it.