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Fertile Ground: Where the Girls Are...Not: Gendering Outdoor Play

Social Commentary post by Alison Parker on April 6, 2012 - 10:02am; tagged children, ecofeminism, green feminism, kids playing outside, mothering, Nature Deficit Disorder, Parenting, Time magazine.

a black and white photo of a group of girls in dresses and hair bows standing outside

A recent article in TIME magazine reveals a study that says kids are not getting outside enough. It is the girls who are neglected the most—they're 16% less likely than boys to be taken outdoors. Really?

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Douchebag Decree: Bad Mothering Lawsuit

Douchebag Decree post by Nicole Morales on September 1, 2011 - 11:58am; tagged bad mothering lawsuit, Chicago, Kimberly Garrity, Miner children, mothering, Steven A. Miner.

"ye olde douchebag decree" in blue letters with a light blue hand-drawn douchebag in the background, and "BITCH HEREBY DECLARES THE FOLLOWING PERSON A TOTAL DOUCHEBAG" in small letters in red underneath.

In 2009, two adult children filed a lawsuit to sue their mother, Kimberly Garrity, for more than $50,000 in "emotional distress" damages. At the time, twentysomething Steven II and eighteensomething Kathryn alleged their mother failed to do her motherly duties thereby accusing Kimberly Garrrity of bad mothering. All rise for Judge Decree...

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