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it may be freezing out, but the colors still look amazing.
if leaving the lights of los angeles means having a river view, i think ill survive.

 

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Vermillion Cliffs, Paria River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave,_Arizona

Вейв (Wave)  находящийся на границе Аризоны и Юты, является местом поклонения пейзажных фотографов со всего мира. Это один из самых интересных природных ландшафтов, который как мне кажется ближе к Марсу чем Земле...

More from Sunday's photo session. Backlit smoke against a black background looks so cool. :-)

Lighting Info: Main light: speedlight through an umbrella softbox, camera left. Fill, speedlight through a Softliter II, camera right. Rim light, speedlight through a snoot, attached to background support by a Justin Clamp. Lights triggered via a combo of radio and optical slaves.

Your teenaged child is HIV+. Your child has a significant other, and the significant other's parent has come across information that reveals your child's HIV status, and tells their child. What do you do/what legal consequences do you think the parent should face?

Let's say that your child has not revealed their status, but they do not engage in sexual activity with their SO, or use protection absolutely perfectly, or even claim to have another, less stigmatized disease, in order to protect their partner and cement their insistence on no sex/protected sex. Does your answer change if your child already revealed their status to their partner? What if the partner tells more people, and your child experiences some kind of poor treatment because of this information being revealed to many people?

Edit: Let's assume the person who came across the information is violating confidentiality - I should have said that before. Oh, and what if you kid IS sexually active, and DIDN'T tell their partner, and they found out through the confidentiality-breaking?

More Trucks...

To what extent do you teach your child to "Respect your elders"? Would you expect them to be respectful if the elder is being childish and petty? What if they were being downright racist or mean? If your child spoke up against such behavior and the elder bitched at you for not raising the child right, what would you say? Would your answer change based on your child's age? 5, 16, 27?

(Based on real-life family drama, lulz)

In the previous post involving parents tattooing their children the response was overwhelmingly negative. However, it's mostly perfectly accepted for parents to have their infants' or toddlers' ears pierced despite piercing guns being completely unsterile and unsuitable for piercing and despite the child being unable to consent.

So, what's the line between what you consider culturally/socially acceptable practices that involve pain and non-consent and what you consider abuse? How do you rationalize one over the other? Would your response to the parents tattooing their children have been different if it was a deeply significant family tradition for them?

You keep hearing yelling and crying coming from your next door apartment. You've lived here for two years in peace and quiet but for the past few weeks the 8 year old next door has been crying and screaming and running around the apartment with the mother chasing after him and yelling almost every day. You think she's stressed from being unemployed and may be taking it out on him with an excessive amount of spankings, but you aren't sure. What do you do?

So, watching "One Big Happy Family", and the train wreck that it appears to be -- yet you can't look away...

How important is it for parents to model good behaviors for children through adulthood?

If your adult children end up with the same "issues" that you have (be they eating, cleanliness, drug use, whatever floats your boat), is it fair to put the onus on the adult child to change without the family changing, or are adult children responsible for their own behaviors?

Your child is 8 or 9, and you notice that they pick up the habit of referring to people (including themselves) as "fags".

You tell them to stop, because it's offensive, and they tell you that they're reclaiming the word and it's not a bad thing.

What do you do?

Your child is turning, say, 6 years old. They go to school and really enjoy class and all their new friends, but obviously have a couple people they aren't so fond of or don't really enjoy being around. You come up to planning their birthday party and plan for only 7 or 8 kids to be invited, whether you have a small budget or a large one. You send your kid to school with the invitations to give to the respective individuals (it would be done at recess, before school, or after school... there isn't usually much time while class is in session to hand out invitations.), only to get all the invitations sent home in an envelope with a note from the teacher, or to get a call from the teacher, letting you know that the school considers it unfair for you to send invitations for some kids but not all... kind of like the "did you bring enough for the whole class?" issue. Your kid has 28+ kids in their class and you're really not planning on having all those children at your kid's party.

What would you do?

-Bring cupcakes for the whole class on your kids birthday, provided you got an OK from the teacher, then still have the party for the selected 7-8 kids.
-Tell the teacher to basically shove it, because that's ridiculous.
-Call the parent of each invited child and invite them over the phone/email, going over the teacher's head.
-Agree with the teacher, and though you weren't planning on 28+ kids, you invite all of them to the party.



this situation did happen in my family, but was just recently brought up by another random post that reminded me about the situation.


** EDIT :: This did not happen with ME, and I am not dealing with this right now, don't assume that I sent invites to school :P I don't even have a school-aged child!

Help me please! I need the book of Niklas Luhmann "The Autopoiesis of Social Systems" in Niklas Luhmann. Essays on Self-Reference. Maybe somebody know where I can download it.
 

Thank you!

Taken on 10th November 2009.

I shot this family, and aside from being "cute" they are truly inspiring.