I am of two minds on this one: on the one hand, if the word of a 7 year-old is enough to break up a marriage, there were probably already issues present.
On the other hand, that daughter is going to have to live with the knowledge that she caused her parents' divorce. I can't help but wonder what this will do to her emotionally, long term.

Welcome to the work force. "Use it or lose it" vacation policies are pretty standard, and those few places that allow "banking" will almost always place limits on how much you can accumulate. They do this for the simple reason that they can't have people gone for extended lengths of time, unless there is some sort of long-term emergency.

Thankfully, very few churches do this. Most of us genuinely don't want to mix politics with faith. That said, on those occasions when it does, it's just as likely to swing either direction.

It's kind of like, walking into a store, you can get a $3 package of toilet paper or a $5 package. The $5 contains more than twice the $3, making it the better buy. The problem is that you only have $4.
Question: given the inherent unfairness of this, how would you change the equation to make it "fair"?

A couple of notes:
1) Johnson pursued the same policies that Lincoln had been prior to his death.
2) Johnson's impeachment was about him trying to get rid of Edwin Stanton as War Secretary (later, the War Department would be renamed "Department of Defense").
3) Most historians agree that impeaching Johnson would have had disastrious consequences for this country, and would have led to having a President who was little more than a figurehead with a nice office.

This door swings both ways, I have seen both liberals and conservatives do this.

You don't want people to apply just for the money? What, are you looking for people that are independently wealthy and only take a job to give themselves something to do?
News flash: if people could make a living without working, most of them wouldn't work.

Yes, he did say that, but that's not what got people upset. What got them upset was when he said, "I and the Father are one."

There is also the whole "banks lose the money that they loaned out" thing, unless you have the federal government reimburse them, which means that taxpayers pick up the tab, which means that the ones that paid theirs off have to help pay for college tuiton twice: once for the own kids, and again for someone else.

To be fair, racism was so predominant 100 years ago, most companies that existed at that time had been founded by a racist (or racists).

I am reminded of what someone said on a similar post: a trans kid is like a vegetarian cat: we all know who is making the decision.

A big part of the problem is that we know next to nothing of that time period. So many of the writings about the Kingdom of Rome were lost when the Gauls sacked Rome, so pretty much everything we know was written afterwards by people who were simply recording what they had been told.

In reference to the title, any mother who is in the habit of just barging in their son's room unannounced is not likely to respond to a request for privacy.

If a kid is growing up around horses, that's a not uncommon part of the picture.

It can be fun to see where you came from. However, be prepared: every family has its skeletons, and DNA tests are a good way to bring those out. (Voice of experience speaking here.)

He should have taken that call about the extended warranty.

If it is a female "sex worker organizer," wouldn't you call her a "Madam"?

Pretty effective ad campaign. The only problem was that they infringed on Pufnstuf's copyright in making it.

This would be funny if it wasn't so incredibly tragic.

From an American: I remember when I was visiting Paris, France and our tour guide explained this to us (I was in High School at the time): "If we drive five hours in that direction, we are speaking Spanish. If we drive about 5 hours in that direction, we are speaking Italian. A few hours in that direction, we are speaking German. A few hours north and we are speaking English. This is why Europeans generally speak so many languages."
Meanwhile, back in the states, If I am standing in the center of the lower 48, I can drive at least 2 days in any direction, and we are still in the US. Depending on the direction, I can probably drive a lot longer than that.
The reality is that most Americans get along just fine speaking only one language: for most of us, it just doesn't come up.

I think someone already made a movie with this exact premise, but I don't remember the name of it. Something by Alfred Hitchcock, maybe?
Edited to add: I found it!! "The Trouble with Harry," by Alfred Hitchcock. One of his few comedies.