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    ZabellaMark Shrayber
    3/22/14 5:20pm

    My guess is a donor/constituent of Senator Ross is going through a divorce and was ranting about how "there ought to be a law against her bringing boyfriends over to the house that I pay for and parading him around in front of my kids."

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      BoxTurtleZabella
      3/23/14 12:40am

      I've always wanted a boyfriend I could <i>parade around</i> - I imagine decorating him with crepe paper and flowers, so he's the prettiest float EVER!

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      goddessoftransitoryBoxTurtle
      3/23/14 1:48pm

      Now make him dance to the marching band's "When The Saints Go Marchin' In!"

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    kristinbytesMark Shrayber
    3/22/14 5:26pm
    GIF
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      Mireille is German for The Bart, TheMark Shrayber
      3/22/14 6:33pm

      Why is the law only within the marital home? What if the kids are staying with the other parent? According to this law, the other parent could have all the sex they want with the kids there, since it's not the marital home. Basing the law around the location sex occurs seems dumb. Maybe the parent takes the kid to a hotel with their one-night stand and just lets them watch from the other bed. Much better! And not covered by this ill-thought out law.

      On top of that, good luck enforcing it. Sounds like something that could easily be abused by spiteful spouses, convince the kids (or convince them to testify) that their mom/dad had sex in the house...

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        NamiChatiMireille is German for The Bart, The
        3/22/14 6:57pm

        Probably because in the majority of divorces the women are the ones who stay in the home with the kids, while the man is the one staying in the one-bedroom. I think it's just a crafty way of vagina regulation.

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        filmantopiaNamiChati
        3/22/14 10:45pm

        Luckily women can easily circumvent this by offering to be the one to leave instead. Take that, system!

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      littleetainMark Shrayber
      3/22/14 10:08pm

      They put a morality clause in my Texas divorce, which I had to fight quite hard to remove. I was not allowed to have any men in my home after 10pm unless we were related.

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        katelilittleetain
        3/24/14 5:14am

        I'm sorry if I sound like a total ignoramus, but how the hell is that even legal in a supposedly modern country?

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        littleetainkateli
        3/24/14 11:32am

        It's not a standard clause, but he wanted it in, and it's apparently still a thing you can ask for. And the judge asked me, on the stand, if I felt that having premarital sex was more important than raising the children in a moral environment. I honestly think that the only reason I was able to get it taken out was because I was working nights then and I literally did not wake up until 4pm most days. I would get home at 7am, get the kids out the door to daycare, sleep until 4pm, and then pick them up. So if I wanted to have any friends over on the weekends, those gatherings didn't start till 5pm, minimum. And so I think the win was because of my schedule, not because the judge thought it was a bad idea. Fortunately, the judge did not win re-election the next time around. I haven't been before the new judge yet so I don't know if there's an improvement. The next fight is going to be changing the kid's primary residence so they can have access to magnet/IB schools, and I have dad on record saying it's ok if she flunks math tests as long as her grades stay in the A/B range, and I also have him on record demanding that her books be confiscated at school and she be denied free reading time at school—which the school thinks is fine, btw—so it should be a slam dunk that he's not supportive of education but my previous experiences in court do not fill me with hope.

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      FluterDaleMark Shrayber
      3/22/14 6:41pm

      Lying about Mommy's parade of beefcake sleepovers will be the new, "Daddy touched me," and nasty divorces everywhere will continue to escalate to the point of stupidity.

      Seriously, there aren't enough real things to police? What about the starving kid earlier? More resources to that . Less resources to the circumstances under which I'm allowed to make adult decisions.

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        ZhiBaChu: Awkward DetectiveMark Shrayber
        3/23/14 2:36am

        Won't pass. Moving on.

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          Magpie32Mark Shrayber
          3/22/14 6:53pm

          Uhh...getting my divorce finalized took 5 years. And, thanks to my shitty marriage I had been celebit for three years prior to that. My twenties would have sucked even more!

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            hahopMark Shrayber
            3/22/14 11:28pm

            Sounds like someone doesnt like hearing about "Uncle Rick" coming to visit the clean home someone once took for granted. Wait a sec, your mother doesn't have a brother named Rick! That lying bitch! There oughta be a law! Rabba rabba!

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