Here’s an interesting new finding: teen pregnancy may not lead to poverty. In fact, poverty may lead to teen pregnancy. Mind-blowing, right? Here’s a little of what I wrote about this over at Babble today: There’s a new paper in…
Author: Rebekah Kuschmider
I'm a mother with an over-developed sense of irreverence, ADD, socialist tendencies and a blog. All my opinions are entirely my own and not representative of anything officially sanctioned by my political party, my mother, or arbiters of common sense and good taste.
This Week in WTF: People Suck
The news has been pretty same-old-same-old lately. You could turn on the 24-hours news networks and expect to hear something like “Blah blah blah, Romney campaigning, blah, blah blah, Obama explaining, blah blah blah, no knows what the fuck is…
Shocker: Women Know What They’re Doing
Remember a few months ago when I lost my shit over all the hoops legislators all over the country were making women jump through in order to get an abortion? And I went off on a major rant about the…
Clean Birth Kits: Help a Mom in a Developing Nation
Ok, this is so full of awesome I can hardly stand it. The incomparable Lydia at Rants from Mommyland clued me into an effort to provide clean birth kits for women in developing nations to mitigate the risk of post-partum…
New on Babble: Sending Mom To Jail For Doing Drugs While Pregnant?
Did you all see the piece in the New York Time Magazine yesterday about women being prosecuted for “chemical endangerment” of a child after their newborns tested positive for drugs? This is a real thing that’s happening in Alabama. Apparently,…
On Class Envy
You have no idea how much I DON’T want to be writing this post. The reason I don’t want to be writing this is because I’m wholly unqualified to delve into the whole concept of class envy. It strikes me…
A Letter to Ann Romney
Dear Ann Romney, Hi. How are you? How was that $500 per plate fundraiser the other night? Tasty? Or rubber chicken at fundraiser prices? Could you have made better chicken at home? Wait, do you cook? OK, that was snide.…
25 Economic Issues That Women Think About
Well. Haven’t we had ourselves a little tizzy about what women think this week? The media, armchair pundits in social media space, politicians, candidates, they were all sounding off on Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney, working moms, stay at home moms,…
A Letter To Newt Gingrich
Dear Newt, So. Newt. This is it, huh? Your last stand. You’re probably not ever going to run for office again so these last weeks of the primary race are your final opportunity to capture this kind of national spotlight.…
New At Babble: Things Pregnant Women WISH They Could Say
Here’s a little something-something to get the week started snarkily. I did a series of “motivational” posters with things pregnant women wish they could say to people who say dumb shit to them. Or maybe it’s just stuff I wish…
