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13 more students arrested for cheating in Long Island.
You may recall that back in September, 7 Long Island students were arrested for cheating on the SAT. This week, thirteen more students were arrested from five schools in Nassau County for “accepting payment or paying others to take the SAT and ACT between 2008 and 2011,” the New York Times reports.
College students who graduated from Great Neck North, Great Neck South and North Shore Hebrew Academy high schools are accused of accepting between $800 and $3500 per test to impersonate unnamed high school students. One such test-taker, Sam Eshaghoff, 19, who was charged in September, was even able to impersonate a female, highlighting the importance of beefing up security during testing. Continue reading »
Can one bad Mother's Day really lead to an extramarital affair?
How was your Mother’s Day?
How’d your husband or partner do? Your kids? Did you get breakfast in bed? Flowers, a card, or a homemade gift? Were you pampered? Made to feel extra loved and appreciated? Or did you get coal in your stocking?
A company with the slogan “Life is short. Have an affair,” AshleyMadison.com, saw a surge in their membership numbers this past Monday, the day after Mother’s Day. It marked a 321 percent increased in traffic by female mothers (compared to the 3,000 women who register on the site daily).
Have you ever contacted an ex-boyfriend on Facebook or sent a flirtatious e-mail? If so, did you tell your spouse about it? And do you consider it cheating?
In Babble’s recent infidelity survey, 69% of respondents believe that flirtatious emails count as cheating. About half of the people who responded (who were overwhelmingly female) said they have contacted an ex via Facebook. And about half of them didn’t tell their partners about it.
The overwhelming majority of respondents felt that both flirtatious e-mail exchanges and intimate “chat roulette” sessions constituted cheating. Continue reading »
Worried your sweetie is cheating? Forget about hacking his e-mail account. Now you can have his underwear tested for interloping DNA and settle the question once and for all.
A company in Arizona is helping suspicious spouses sneak a peek into the microscopic layers of their loved one’s underthings to help bust cheaters. But isn’t it kind of shady, dishonest behavior to steal your partner’s unmentionables and secretly mail them to a DNA lab? Talk about your violations of trust.
The company, Chromosomal Laboratories, Inc., is also giving away paternity tests for Father’s Day. ‘Cause that’s totally not creepy. Um.
Sandra Bullock’s estranged husband Jesse James has been in the news for months, ever since his cheating scandal broke. In an exclusive interview with ABC’s Nightline this week, he blamed his infidelity on the abuse he received as a child. After a stint in rehab, he came out saying, “I grew up with a huge amount of shame and fear and abandonment on my shoulders from a very young age and I think, you know, the way my mind rationalized [cheating], ‘Well, you know, I might as well do whatever I can to like run her off cause she is going to find out what I am anyway and leave me anyway.’”
Vicki Mabrey countered that many people who were abused as children go on to be faithful adults. So is it that there are real excuses for cheating, or do men who cheat need an excuse? British psychiatrist Dennis Friedman, in his book The Unsolicited Gift: Why We Do The Things We Do, thinks that men who were raised by nannies have a natural instinct to cheat. He believes that being cared for by more than one woman as a child introduces men “to the concept of the other woman.” Continue reading »
Well, not my kid and definitely not my sex tape. But Momlogic guest-blogger Margie (last name not given for fairly obvious reasons) says her tween daughter found her sex tape and watched it. Sure, kids need to learn about the birds and the bees, but not at age 9 via homemade instructional video starring Mom and Dad.
While the story seems fairly innocuous (Margie says she caught her daughter watching the tape, by accident, about 10-seconds in and stopped it immediately), I have to ask, what makes people want to make sex tapes to begin with??? Homemade porn is fodder for many a comedian, and while I’ve never talked about it on stage, the concept just blows my mind. (My sketch partners and I mock it in this remake of the Sophie B. Hawkins classic, I Wish You Were My Lover – NSFW.) Then again, I’m not really into the professional stuff, either. I’ve got a pretty vivid fantasy life, and if I wanted to see bad acting, I could just borrow my mother’s copy of All About Steve. (Fun fact: Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for Best Actress and the Razzie for Worst Actress in the same year.) Now there’s a woman who should probably be making sex tapes. But since she’s a parent, then again, maybe not. Let’s hope Sandra doesn’t end up like Margie, with a forgotten tape lying around. How do you explain to your adopted son that he’s seeing his would-have-been Dad making love to his Mom right before she caught him cheating with a woman who has a swastika tattooed on her face? Nazi face is inappropriate even for a sex tape. (Okay, I know. The swastika isn’t on her face. But the camera would probably be spending more time closer to where it actually is, anyway.) Continue reading »
You know you taught them better than that, but when it comes to cheating at school most kids admit to finding a little wiggle room on the old moral compass. It’s not that they weren’t listening when you stressed the importance of being honest and true. It’s more a case of selective application. Continue reading »
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