Makarah on Thu, 8th Oct 2009 7:40 pm 



When you have solidified your relationship with your love interest and know that its serious… not just someone passing through to show you a good time…

Tina Fortune on Wed, 14th Oct 2009 11:31 am 



I introduced my love interest after 6 months and after I first introduced him to the family. I introduced him as a friend and allowed the children to see us interact. Also, we refered to each other as friends mostly (which we are) because that is what is most important to the two of us.

CATHERINE K. BUSH-LONGSWORTH on Thu, 15th Oct 2009 10:52 pm 



THE FAMILY COURT IN BROOKLYN — I am amazed at the number of women who are continually and habitually abused and assaulted daily, right here in the good ole US of A— by the Family Court, no less. Can anyone please tell me why, after oftentimes being abused, physically and/or mentally, women who seek the protection and consideration that they deserve from the Family Court System right here in the United States are abused again by those who are ‘supposed’ to help. The Family Court System, I thought, was supposed to be a place where one can get help to resolve issues, like domestic abuse, child support, family counseling, and/or at least referrals to social service agencies that can help women and their children, since more than 99.99% of the time the women are the ones raising the children, but instead these women who are already ‘broken’ are further degraded by insensitive, rude, ill-informed, non-helpful court CLERKS who yell, scream, insult and further degrade these fragile women in need, and ultimately the children are the ones who suffer. Can someone, anyone, please explain this to me? In this, one of the richest countries in the world, where modernized 12-story court houses filled with all sorts of social service agencies, why does a child have to be already considered a ‘delinquent’ in order to receive the help they may so desperately need as they are products of these highly dysfunctional families. Would not it make much more sense to give these fragile, broken women and their children the help BEFORE they are so far gone that they are made a ward of the state, considered a “person in need of supervision”, become a felon, or worse? Instead, these places, these court houses, deter these women, and subsequently their chiildren, from getting the help they so desperately need by hiring ill-trained, uncaring, demeaning, insulting staff who only further abuse the already abused. Absurd I say. Absolutely absurd.

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