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Should My Ex's Fiancee Post Photos of My Daughter on Her Facebook? {ParentDish}

Jun 19th 2010 3:06AM Exactly. If you take pictures of your child at their birthday party, do you ask the permission of parents (BOTH parents if they happen to be divorced) of every child who attended that party before posting pictures?

Unless you keep your child locked away 24 hours a day, chances are someone somewhere has taken a picture of them. And if you're going to police someone for posting pics of your child, police EVERYONE who's ever posted a pic containing your child in some form (parties, playgrounds, school functions? That's a lot of pictures), not just the woman who happens to be marrying your ex.

Should My Ex's Fiancee Post Photos of My Daughter on Her Facebook? {ParentDish}

Jun 19th 2010 2:57AM What about the father's rights to post pictures of his own child? Obviously he saw no problem with the pictures. If he needs to ask his ex's permission before allowing someone to post pictures of their child, then shouldn't the same be true the other way around? Does the mother seek his approval before letting her friends post pictures taken of the child at any recent kid-friendly events?

Should My Ex's Fiancee Post Photos of My Daughter on Her Facebook? {ParentDish}

Jun 18th 2010 1:16AM Alex brings up a good point; the cause of issues such of these is often times jealousy.

Does the mother in this case have pictures of her daughter on her own social networking pages? What about the mother's friends and family? If you're going to protect your children, do it with everyone, not just your ex's fiancee.

I realize my opinion is influenced by my own personal situation, being the long-term girlfriend of a man who is the father of one of the most amazing little girls to ever live. Unfortunately his ex-wife uses his daughter as a tool to punish him, limiting contact as a way of asserting control. As a result, in an effort to stay on her good side so as to keep his daughter in his life, my presence in her life has to be practically eliminated.

If it was a matter of her safety I would more than understand. But her mother posts pictures of her constantly, not to mention her mother's friends, siblings, parents, cousins, extended family, etc. all have photos taken of her at various family events. However, if I were to post even a single photo of her on on any page of mine (keeping in mind I would never give her name, and the fact that she lives on the west coast while just about everyone who can see my page lives on the east coast), her mother would cry foul.

It's not always about safety. Sometimes it's about personal dislike.

Protecting your children is always of the utmost importance. But if the situation is not of any actual danger to your child, you have to ask yourself what your real concern is. If jealousy or possessiveness are in any way a factor, you're not helping your child, you're hurting them. When parents use children as a weapon to hurt an ex, everyone loses, most of all the children who are denied access to parents and people who love them and want only the best for them.

Eight Ways to Make a Raptor Even More Deadly {Asylum}

Oct 30th 2008 5:21AM This article doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of raptor-related dangers. Consider:

Vampirism: What if a raptor were bitten by a vampire? Suddenly you have a raptor who is immune to traditional attacks, with even more enhanced strength and speed, and worst of all, is immortal? Sure, they can't go out during the day, but once the sun goes down the night belongs to the raptor.

Telekenesis: One of the velociraptor's greatest strengths is its advanced intelligence. Is it such a stretch, then, to imagine them obtaining psychic powers? Not only can it stalk you through the jungle, it can attack you with the jungle itself! And it's all over once they learn to teleport...

Radioactivity: Raptor + plutonium = the most deadly element known to man. Even if you survive the initial attack, the raptor-cancer will eventually catch up to you. You can't hide from velociraptumors.

The 20 Worst Lyrics Ever: No. 13 {Spinner}

Jun 26th 2007 3:17AM This song was just full of weird, seemingly pointless lyrics. "The heat was hot": as opposed to that bitter arctic heat.

"The ocean is a desert with it's life underground/and a perfect disguise above". Ok, what? Obviously a metaphor, but one of the most obscure metaphors in history. For one thing, the ocean is under WATER, not ground. Underground in the ocean is no longer ocean; it's the earth's crust. And that perfect disguise is what, air? "Disguise" indicates it's something other than it seems, which makes you wonder what America thinks air seems to be....