Do you mean Massachusetts? Or am I missing something?

I’d imagine physical abuse ends once the child is big enough to fight back or move out. Verbal and emotional abuse are more insidious and the child may, in my experience, be deep into adulthood before they put an end to it.

It’s easy to point at “my mom broke my arm for acting up” and see it as abuse, compared to “my mom told me my behavior is the reason I can’t have friends over, so I only see my friends at school. For the last 5 years.”

I’d also be curious to see a paper comparing the effects of different sorts of abuse.

My mom would threaten to have my sibling pick the switch. Never actually did, but the threat was there. She told us that her parents would actually do it, implying we should be grateful she was a gentler parent.

Well, both times they were voluntary layoffs. The first company was going to lay off something ridiculous, like a third of the workforce, with overseas employees part of the denominator but not the numerator. The first round was voluntary and offered the best severance package, so that’s what I took. I was the newest employee in my group, so I figured the writing was on the wall.

The second time, my company’s (company A) contract wasn’t renewed. The company that did get the contract (B) offered to hire all the employees that were currently doing the work away from A. Otherwise the employee would be laid off from A.

I accepted the (crappy, effectively 30% pay cut) offer from B, got a better offer from C, then went back to B and said “thanks, but no thanks” about 2 months before the contract ended and the new one with B started. This meant that from A’s point of view A laid me off, which gave me a month of severance per A’s policy.

Naturally.

I’ve gotten around the “you must work for The Company for 3 years to be fully vested in your retirement” rule. The trick is to be laid off–generally, when you leave in a layoff they instantly vest your account. It’s worked for me twice so far.

Older millennial, and ditto. It’s mostly older, with a smattering of 30-somethings with their kids

I swapped my desktop computer to night mode so my floater is less annoying.

My optician said I’d stop noticing it in 6 weeks. That was 6 months ago.