PrivateTim

I am dumbstruck by this "Will is mature", "Will is more mature at 14 than Brad at 17". Less than six months ago a naked 13 year old Will was ejaculating on a stage in a gay club, got drunk and high on a school trip risking expulsion, then destroyed tens to hundreds of thousands worth of personal property belonging to his fathers and finally ran away? Blue and Centex, please point out where Brad had similar actions in Be Rad. How is what Will did "controlling" his anger? His anger seemed rather out of control to me. Those actions alone are reason enough no judge would ever grant him an emancipation even if he had parental approval. Age and maturity are not automatic, but 99.999% of the time maturity comes with experience and experience comes from age. Are either one of you trying to say you think you were just as mature your freshman year in high school as you were as senior year in high school? Was it the same for all your friends maturity level? And did you have the same level of maturity your freshman year in college as you did your senior year in college?? Heck, by the end of my freshman year in college I was much more mature just by the fact of living away from home and having to be completely self reliant when it came to getting to class, getting assignments done, etc. Just become some people are immature at older ages does make it the norm, it is the outlier.

As to the new chapter of Paternity there are just so many potential directions things could be heading. Are Jeff and Elizabeth headed to divorce or estrangement? Is Elizabeth going to have a reduced role in the Senator's job, life, policies, etc? If this were Hollywood, Wade would be awarded a spin off series. I think the leak was pretty clearly from Elizabeth and as part of her continuing assault on Wade to try and prove him not capable of handling his trust fund.

Looking and acting like an adult has nothing to do with emotional maturity. it has been reiterated over and over that Will looks like an 18 year old not that he acts like an 18 year old. Even 18 year olds are pretty immature still and a 14 year old is that much more immature. In the same way that a lot of gay men can act straight, a 14 can act like an adult, but that is just what it is, acting. All anyone needs to do is think about how much they changed, grew and matured from their freshman year in high school to their senior year in high school and then again from their freshman year in college to their senior year in college. And again how much you mature from leaving to school to working your first career job.

Wasn't Brad older when he was the narrator in Be Rad? Like 17? Big difference between that and 13. I also don't think Will controls his temper much better. He had the implosion where he potentially did hundreds of thousands of dollars damage and then ran away. And JP may have done better with Brad, but not with Billy. I think Cody will provide the needed fatherly functions and be around as needed, but he won't be a Wade and unlike most fathers not married to the woman he had a child with, he doesn't have to worry about the financial support. I expect the family to take care of that. So Cody's role will be different from Wade's, but adequate.

Yes Mark, it is remarkable not just that you have been able to keep up the amazing CAP series, but the horny sailor story too. I've had to put that aside while I've read the CAP series due to time constraints. Can't believe how you can bang them out. Truly marvelous. A tip of the cap.

I still think Will thinks it is kind of a turn on, he was just mad that someone tried to use them to hurt someone else and he is using it for leverage.

Actually NBC did a great job in showing the events, they were on MSNBC, CNBC, NBCSports, Bravo and NBC daytime TV. It was their nighttime, Prime Time show that sucked. It had stupid commentary and weird cuts of sports, weird "human interest" stories, but you could have watched virtually every event on either TV or streaming off the Internet.

It certainly would, which is what I said earlier that given how rare and isolated the incidents have been a court would order mediation and counseling long before they terminated parental rights and remember emancipation and termination of parental rights are two very separate and different things. In CA you can NOT have an minor emancipation without the consent of the parent or guardian. You just can not, it is the law. A granting of emancipation could follow the termination of parental rights, but it is far from automatic, especially with a 14 year old. They are more likely to assign a guardianship in a case like Will's, but for your average Father Tim type kid it would be assignment to a foster home or a group home like Father Tim's.

I am an attorney. Maybe the Professor needs to get out of the classroom and into a court room. I could flood you with case law where parents with abuse 50x worse than Jeannie did not have their parental rights terminated. Will is this 14 year old "with the body of an 18 year old" and they are going to go into court with a single account of where Jeannie scrathed and bruised Will's wrists and that is abuse severe enough to remove her parental rights? God why can't I face people like the Professor in court. Ca Fam § 7122 is black letter law in CA. Perhaps your DA friend should read it and In re Olivia A. (1986) so he understands his obligation under the law. Do I need to drop Bonnie an email about further legal education for her peeps?

Can Rio stage a successful Olympics? How will they address the favelas in Rio? And the issues of street crime? Can they use the Olympics to remove or improve the shanty towns? Will the world economy allow them the funding to do so?

While I think the opening ceremonies dragged on too long and weren't that great, the Games themselves were marvelously managed and the venues were great. Rio has a huge challenge ahead of it to match the accomplishments.

Tom Daley had a marvelous Olympics. That he performed so well in the 10m platform is a testament to his ability and mental toughness. He did everything he had to do to win a gold medal. He dove the appropriate dives to put pressure on his opponents, at least Boudia who dove a slightly tougher program than Daley and Qui who dove the same exact program. I think Qui benefited from rather generous judging, especially on dive 5255B and was not penalized on a dive where he missed vertical.

And any competent attorney would argue that Jeannie was merely using it as a tool to stop Will's promiscuity, especially with people over the age of 18. If you add up how many people Will has already had sex with at barely the age of 14 and how many of them are over 18, it might be a compelling argument especially when the other adults in Will's life have done nothing to curtail his sexual escapades and in some cases, enabled them. Stop me if I am wrong, but we are still less than six months from Will's kidnapping and sexual abuse in Paris and his naked pole dance in Rome. It would be very easy for a lawyer for Jeannie to put on expert after expert about how Will is suffering post traumatic stress and all his erratic behavior (naked pole dance, promiscuity, underage drinking, running away, destruction of ten's of thousands of property, etc) is a cry for help and Jeannie was using the only tool she could think of to shock the adults in Will's life to look at his behaviors and get him help.

Your friend in the DA's office and the private attorney can disagree all they want, but they are wrong. Emancipation does not exist in CA for kids who think they have rotten parents. Emancipation To quote from the above from the CA courts. Your friends can also look at the Legal Services for Children of San Francisco guide on Emancipation. Emancipation is not the tool that is used to get minors away from abusive parents. And in no way, shape or form does anything that Brad has done rise to the level where a court would consider termination of parental rights. Not even Jeannie is close. For a court to terminate Jeannie's parental rights there would have to be a persistent pattern of abusive behavior and that just doesn't exist. If I remember correctly your DA friend is the one who also said that when Lark jacked off in front of Will, knowing Will was watching, that that would not rise to the level of a charge or Child Endangerment. It makes me wonder what your friend in the DA's office does for them since he does not seem up on the state of the law in CA, especially as it applies to minors. Mark can use poetic license, it is a fiction story, but emancipation would only come for a 14 year old in CA after an extended period of separation from their parents and many other remedies had been tried and the parents still have to agree unless their parental rights had been terminated and then the court appointed guardian would have to agree to the emancipation. Emancipation is only a tool to enable a minor to sign contracts for things like employment, housing, vehicles and the like.

Here are my thoughts so far from my review. Okay, so a couple of points. One, I don't get why Sean would need to tell Wade anything. In fact Sean would be bound by the canons of ethics to not disclose to anyone what he and Will talk about. Sean doesn't even have an obligation to tell Wade Will is a client unless and until there is a conflict of interest between representing both people and then he would have to withdraw as the counsel of one of them. Two, emancipation of a 14 year is nigh on impossible in CA if the parents object to the minor living apart from them. If there was a need to terminate parental rights the courts would appoint a guardian, if a person were willing. But a judge would laugh Will out of the court with his gripes against Brad and Robbie. In the bad parent sweepstakes they are not in the top 95%. No judge would terminate Brad's parental rights and not even Jeannie's. The "abuse" by Jeannie is so minor in the scheme of what judges see everyday, they would order counseling and mediation long, long before they would terminate her rights. Lastly, I think Will is back to being out of control and in the wrong. He is 14, he does not get a say in how his life is run, that is the reality of being 14 and a 9th grader. While Brad may not be handling the situation perfectly he still has no obligation to run all his parental decisions past someone not mature enough to make decisions on his own.

Okay, so a couple of points. One, I don't get why Sean would need to tell Wade anything. In fact Sean would be bound by the canons of ethics to not disclose to anyone what he and Will talk about. Sean doesn't even have an obligation to tell Wade Will is a client unless and until there is a conflict of interest between representing both people and then he would have to withdraw as the counsel of one of them. Two, emancipation of a 14 year is nigh on impossible in CA if the parents object to the minor living apart from them. If there was a need to terminate parental rights the courts would appoint a guardian, if a person were willing. But a judge would laugh Will out of the court with his gripes against Brad and Robbie. In the bad parent sweepstakes they are not in the top 95%. No judge would terminate Brad's parental rights and not even Jeannie's. The "abuse" by Jeannie is so minor in the scheme of what judges see everyday, they would order counseling and mediation long, long before they would terminate her rights. Lastly, I think Will is back to being out of control and in the wrong. He is 14, he does not get a say in how his life is run, that is the reality of being 14 and a 9th grader. While Brad may not be handling the situation perfectly he still has no obligation to run all his parental decisions past someone not mature enough to made decisions on his own.

Oh please...... USC has 39 athletes (and 46 when you include coaches) at the games and Cal has 38 plus 7 coaches. From 1904 to 2010, there have been 396 athletes who attended USC before, during or after their Olympic appearance. They have collected 262 medals (123 gold, 78 silver and 61 bronze), including at least one gold medal in every summer Olympics from 1912. If USC competed as a country, its 262 medals would rank 17th most in the world, while its 123 gold medals would be 12th most. Cal athletes have captured 159 total medals, 91 gold, 40 silver and 28 bronze, including a school-record 17 medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. A total of 46 Bears were at the Games in China, and the 2012 number is second only to USC's 46 among schools nationwide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ggsT2HWkc

Really? So you think Canada would have scored two more goals down one person? I know you are from Wales, but surely you must understand something about football.

Okay, follow me here.... Sam Mikulak is my cousin's doctor's son. It hurt right here doc.

The officiating was atrocious and Canada got the best of it. With the score 1-1 with 56 minutes gone, Canadian player Melissa Tancredi deliberately stomped on the head of Carli Lloyd as she lay on the turf. That is an automatic Red Card and Canada should have played a man down for about 34 minutes. Tancredi also would not be playing today. FIFA should also still sanction her. To NotNoNever, FIFA has everything to do with the tournament. The "Olympics" don't stage any contests, the world sports organizations do, FIFA runs soccer, FINA runs water polo, swimming, diving etc, FILA runs wrestling, FIVB runs volleyball and so on.

Congrats to bronze medalist Max Whitlock. And gold medalist Zou Kai.

So Cal and Nor Cal are just different. I've lived in both and flourished in each, but if you are a hard core beach person, Palo Alto is a bad trade off for Malibu, even if you have a Santa Cruz beach house. H-W isn't that different from Menlo, but I see Will's future in So Cal and H-W is a better fit for that. Will also has good friends like Ryan that I would hate to see him lose. I was kind of there with you until the last sentence (quoted). He was NOT a bad son, he was a typical kid. You can't blame him for the adults letting him play them. They ARE the adults. That is Brad and Jeannie's fault.

Love it. Fun chapter. I hope Jeannie going back to the nut house.... errr, controlled living situation, keeps Will in LA and at H-W. Nice that JJ got his groove on a little. Not sure if that means he is gay or exploring his options, but it was nice. Loved the scene with Shane.... hope he "pops up" later in the series

I didn't say Brad was out of character, he is very much in character. What I said was in so many words was it was odd he hadn't learned from the experience. He is still trying to be JP, the Controller, but he hasn't figured out how to control from behind yet. You control by co-opting others positions. You lay out the scenario for people and direct them to the outcome you want. When they stray off the path you want them on you guide them back by asking questions, not by pulling them back on path. I still Will is a bit out of control, he doesn't see the big picture. He wants to be Will, the 14 year old going on 22, he has to show maturity not petulance and that he gets the big picture.