Ivan Rodriguez Alba/E+/Getty Images If you suddenly learned that your parents hated the name they bestowed upon you, would you change it to appease them? One teenage son wonders if he’s in the wrong after refusing to change his birth name due to his parents’ regret. Now, he’s turning to the ever-entertaining “Am I The A**hole?” subreddit thread for some outside opinions. “I’m (16m) my parent’s youngest kid and the only kid the name based on what they liked vs what the family wanted them to name us,” he begins before explaining that all his siblings were named after family...
One Dad Wonders If Kids Today Go Trick-Or-Treating Anymore
svetikd/E+/Getty Images Halloween celebrations have definitely changed since we were all a lot younger. My parents used to send me and my siblings out into the neighborhood, pillowcases in tow, and let us run a muck for hours, filling our pillowcases with as much candy as possible. Now, there are harvest fall fests and truck-or-treats at every church in town, plus our downtown holds its own trick-or-treating event during the day. There are so many Halloween-esque events leading up to the actual night of Halloween that we’re usually burnt out. We’ll take a stroll around the block with our daughter,...
24 New Kids' Movies & Shows Coming To Netflix In October 2024
Netflix At long last, we made it — it’s October, friends. If only the weather could get its life together and feel like fall, we could finally say we’ve officially made it to cozy season. Bring on the couch cuddle puddles and spooky movies! Make some hot cocoa and binge-watch a new series! The post-Olympics lull has passed, and Netflix is coming in hot with a whole slew of family-friendly movies and shows coming to the streamer in October. From The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist (Oct. 3) to Season 2 of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Oct. 17) and much more, the...
Louisiana Has Classified Abortion Pills As Dangerous Controlled Substances
NurPhoto/NurPhoto/Getty Images Beginning October 1, Louisiana has reclassified two drugs commonly referred to jointly as “the abortion pill” — mifepristone and misoprostol — as a Schedule IV dangerous controlled substance. Obstetricians in the state are sounding the alarm that this will create barriers to care in the delivery room. Mifepristone and misoprostol are used together to end a pregnancy. Mifepristone (which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000) is taken first to block progesterone, which supports the continuation of a pregnancy, followed by misoprostol (approved in 1988), which causes cramping and bleeding and empties the uterus. While...