delightfully gay and wicked

According to New Jersey law:

To become a legal guardian, one must apply, pass a background check, pay the court filing fee, and show up in court. Guardianship is eligible if the person being cared for is a child whose parents/family can't care for them (newest version of this: kinship legal guardian) or an adult is incapacitated. (More here)

Kinship legal guardians (KLGs) cannot replace parents, who still retain custody and visiting rights and are obligated to financially support their child. On the other hand, adoption means the adopter completely replaces the birth parent(s) for custody. (Even more here) Both biological parents must consent to the adoption, except for the bio dad if he is unaware of the child or does not have a legal commitment to the child. (Yes, more here)

Some interesting points:

Parents retain the right to visit their kids with a KLG and are still responsible for child support for them.

If a child is adopted, they may no longer be eligible for inheritance from their birth/former parents.

KLGs are not allowed to change their child's name; adoptive parents are.

KLGs have to have some connection to the child's family and/or a positive relationship with the child, and have lived with the child for 12 months.

Both guardians and adoptive parents are eligible to government financial support.

Since Bruce never adopted Dick and he's often described as Bruce's ward, Bruce was likely just appointed Dick's legal guardian until he was 18 👌🏾

By NJ law, Bruce wouldn't have been able to adopt Tim, Steph, or Cass since their living parents could or would not consent to it 🙅🏾‍♀️

EDIT: Bruce could (and did) adopt Tim after his parents died/were incapacitated, and Cass probably doesn't even legally exist sooooo

Jason and Duke are fair game 👍🏾

I just noticed the mirroring here.

This is called chiasmus, a literary device named after the Greek letter chi (X) because it involves crossing two things of similar value to emphasize how they run counterparallel to each other. In this case, it's visual – Dick and Kory in the sunlight with Dick on the left and (it's implied) taking blood from Kory, vs. Dick and Barbara in the dark with Dick on the right and offering his blood to Barbara. The indication is that Dick needs both of these women but in opposite ways.

And if I'm not mistaken, the first issue is #6 (so halfway through the main series) and the second is #12 (the final issue). [ETA: I was mistaken, the first is from issue #8]

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

I'm changed. Does that mean you loved me?