I'm a fan of slow burners and plagues/outbreaks and really loved the insanely clever twist near the end of Suffer The Children.
Can anyone suggest a few similar books?
I'm also going to be on a 20+hrs flight to Australia in May and would love some flight based horror novel suggestions. I mean, it'll be the perfect setting for it, am I right?
Thanks guys!
I'd like to see stories regarding treatment from cops, housed people, and other homeless people. And I want to know about laws regarding homeless people, shelter rules on people deemed to be intentionally homeless, and the struggles of trying to find work. Also tips and tricks from your experience that could potentially help with staying safe and finding a warm place at night. If you're commenting in regards to a specific law/rule or treatment from cops it would be helpful to get the country the law is from if you feel comfortable sharing that information. (I haven't picked a country in which this part of my story takes place and I don't want to use conflicting laws or 2 laws from different countries. It will also help determine the country I set it in.) I read the rules and although this post doesn't violate any of them, if moderators feel this type of thing is disrespectful, I completely understand if you feel it should be removed.
When I was a freshman in college, I worked for a private elementary/middle school (in the development office) that was right next to a major soft drink’s US headquarters. My boss was a trust fund baby and was totally unqualified for the job, which he got through his dad.
The school was renting one of those modular office units (basically a big shipping container) to use as a classroom for elementary school kids. Their rental agreement was ending soon, and he asked me to draft an email to them asking for them to “donate the unit to the children.” I did some research, and these units cost >$100,000 to buy, so (surprisingly!) they said no.
Then, my boss told me to write a letter to the soft drink corporation next door, asking for them to buy the modular unit for the school. They responded pretty quickly and said they already give a generous donation to the school’s scholarship fund every year (which I found out later was annually about $80k) and that they wouldn’t be able to purchase a unit for the school at this time.
My boss wrote his own response this time and showed it to me after. He basically said that the children’s learning will suffer because of this greedy corporations’ unwillingness to help, and then proceeded to ask for donations to the upcoming school auction. No response.
This school was filled with entitled parents and CB staff that would beg for donations and then turn down most of them. I left after about a year.
So I love documentaries because I’m a nerd. One hit the front page of reddit the other day on r/documentaries & it seemed super interesting. It was about the DuPont paint plant in the US northeast dumping a chemical byproduct of Teflon into rivers & how it effected the residents.
The documentary opens with a man who’s mother worked at the plant while she was pregnant. He has severe birth defects & was only born with 1 nostril & part of his eye was not attached correctly. He had to have 30+ surgeries by the time he was 5 to correct everything, & has some deformities because of it. It’s absolutely heartbreaking because the company knew this chemical was dangerous all along & didn’t say anything. It’s a wonderful documentary you should check out if you’re interested.
But the real kicker, was about halfway through. Said man had gotten married & wanted to have a child. He said he was terrified of having another child go through what he went through, so they did genetic testing before even trying to get pregnant which I applaud them for. The baby had a 50/50 shot of suffering like his father, yet they still went through with it.
I was furious. They were saying shit like ‘well he deserved to be a dad!’ Okay? Adopt? Foster? If sprouting a fruit is so important do a sperm donor maybe?? Nope.
Thankfully the baby was fine but how goddamn selfish do you have to be to willingly & knowingly put a child in that position?! I can see why some people want kids, different strokes for different folks, but why are your genetics so important? I’ll never understand breeders.
If you care about your kid so much, do not risk their health for shit like that.
They are raised in idontcareavans
You hold a service, or attend one. The virus spreads through the congregation. It simply will, as demonstrated many times over already.
You get sick. How long will you suffer, and how long will your kids wonder if they are going to get their parent back?
If you die, how will it affect your children? You might want to consider that you can't choose which Foster family will get your kids.
If you don't die, how long will you be off work, and how will that affect your family? Will you spread it to your family, or have you already done that?
If you get your children or grandchildren sick, how long will they suffer? Are you prepared to hear that they died on a ventilator, from the ICU doctor who witnessed it?
Just. Stay. Home.
It was great I confessed my love to Louis. Although one thing does have me confused 90% of the people on YouTube are Pro-Louis. While in the game stats Alot of people chose violet for stuff in the Episoide anyone care to elaborate? And yes I did let violet get kidnapped.
When Clem and AJ hear the gunshot while walking through the woods, Clem takes off her backpack while hiding behind the trees. After that, it was never seen again.
What I'm wondering is, why did Clementine take off her backpack and leave it like that? Seemed like a pointless thing to do when she could've kept it strapped on. If anything, they'd at least have something to carry the bomb in during Episode 3. Clem could've even used it to store the arrows she shoots, just like how it is in "The Last of Us".
This is often cited as children going hungry; however the only source I can find uses a self report survey in which adults report whether they are food secure or food insecure.
Interestingly, 1 in 5 children receive food stamps.
There are 74 million children in the US. 30 million of those receive free lunch. A large portion of that 74 million aren’t even in school.
Food security does not measure actual hunger. And the amount of benefits available to people who are hungry in the US is more than adequate to meet the needs of children who are hungry.
Charitable organizations (non- governmental) are far more prevalent in the US.
So, who is actually hungry? I know lots of organizations take up money to feed kids but who are the kids that are being fed?
The only cause I can find would be child neglect where someone intentionally withholds food from kids.
BUT there is a lot of rhetoric stating otherwise. As a result, I am seeking the knowledge of the reddit masses to help me better understand.
Note: I never want kids to go hungry. I am a father. I have worked in child protective services/welfare as well as homeless recovery for many years. I do not see hungry children. The only I have ever seen is because of neglect.
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