According to data from the American Judges’ Association, 70 percent of contested custody cases involving domestic violence eventually grant joint or sole custody to the abuser.

Eliza Shapiro reports on the hurdles rich abused women face, from disbelief by peers to the ‘legal dream teams’ hired by high-income husbands, which results in statistics like the above. 

Flash mob proposal! 

(Source: thedailybeast.com)

Jeremy Lin held a Facebook Q&A last night! Lots of ladies asked for his hand in marriage. Here are 10 of their proposals.

1. Would you ever marry a black girl?
2. Do you think you will be in good condition for the playoffs? And will you marry me?
3. I hope you’re feeling well! & sorry to all the other ladies, but I think it’s only right that we get married, since we’re both from Cali and now live in NY…obviously?
4. I saw our names next to each other! It’s fate — let’s get married!
5. Hey, I waited since you tweeted about the Q&A. Will you marry me?
6. Can we get married today or tomorrow?
7. Jeremy can we get married? Please?
8. Will you marry me, Jeremy? LOL it rhymes
9. Jeremy Lin: I love Asian men. Marry me…now!
10. Will you marry my sister?

[h/t WSJ for running the numbers on this.]

When that fame hits, everyone around your husband starts telling him he’s great and he’s perfect. As a wife, you’re supposed to just fall in line and go along with it all. That wears thin after a while.

It’s not so fun being an NBA star’s wife.

* A McDonald’s hamburger that was left out on a table. (It took 180 days to decompose.)

* The piece of gum that Violet chewed for 90 days in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.

* Bill Clinton’s denial of having “sexual relations with that woman” (211 days)

(more; even more)

Touche

(Source: mar-see-ah, via brooklynmutt)

This state, when it’s at its finest, is a beacon for social justice.

Gov. Cuomo, on NY becoming the sixth and largest state to approve gay marriage

Is Monogamy Obsolete?

• 65 percent of women—and a whopping 80 percent of men—say they’d cheat if they knew they wouldn’t get caught.

• 21 percent of people who answered a 14,000-person Oprah.com survey said they have an open marriage.
• More than half of Americans cheat, and yet 70 to 85 percent of adults think cheating is wrong.

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motherjones:

Mississippi Republicans were asked whether interracial marriage should be legal. In 2011.

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Oh dear god.