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User Agreement  

Cynthia MoshergeorgiaMothering
By: Cynthia Mosher, georgia, and Mothering
Posted 11/9/10 • Last updated 5/2/13 • 1992 views

Mothering’s Mission

 
Mothering is a community for exploring and celebrating the philosophy of natural family living. This philosophy includes the ideas of instinctual and responsive parenting, sustainable living, and parental autonomy. Mothering was founded by mothers on the premise that parents are experts in regards to their own families. In the spirit of informed consent, we examine unexplored sides of an issue, including controversial subjects, in an effort to give mothers all the possible information available. Ultimately, natural family living is about finding what is natural for a parent when unimpeded by social pressure. Mothering's vision is to provide parents with the information and inspiration to make the best choices for their families and empower them to claim their personal authority as a parent.
 

General Conduct

Mothering aims to be a welcoming environment to discuss subjects pertaining to and surrounding natural family living. We appreciate that members come to our community at different places in their parenting journey and one of our goals is to welcome and educate new members. With that in mind, we expect our members to keep conversations civil and on topic, and uphold the integrity and diversity of the community. We value the honest and supportive exchange of ideas and opinions, and we ask that members avoid negative characterizations and generalizations about others. Examples and calm explanation are more useful than condemnation of ideas that differ from Mothering's philosophies.
 

Posting Rules

Attacking or Name Calling

Hate posts and personal attacks will not be tolerated. Treat others as you would want to be treated. Attacking someone to provoke a negative response is not allowed.
 

Hate Speech

We do not tolerate hate speech in any form. This includes but is not limited to racist slang terms, hateful comments based on skin color or background, religious bashing or intolerance, gay or trans bashing, sexist material, sizeism, ableism, faith-based prejudicial statements, derogatory remarks, and all jokes in poor taste.
 

Trolling

We are all entitled to our opinions, including those that are negative about a topic. But if you are knowingly or purposely posting to incite negativity and anger from the community, you will be banned.
 

Profanity

Offensive language is unacceptable and your post will be removed.
 

Spamming

Purposely spamming with senseless, vacuous, or off-topic messages is not tolerated.
 

Advertising & Solicitation

We don’t welcome people posting their wares or promoting their websites in discussion threads. There are proper channels for advertising (contact advertise@mothering.com).
 

Pornography & Sexually Explicit Content

Posting of pornographic images or sexually suggestive content is not allowed. Discussions of sexual issues are hosted in the Sex Talk forum.
 

Piracy

We don’t allow linking to or giving information about any site that distributes illegal software or media or otherwise encouraging software or media piracy.
 

Questionable Content

The Mothering community stands strongly against pro-spanking advocacy, abortion debate, routine infant circumcision, and harsh sleep training, including “crying it out”. Please keep this in mind when you post. A few other things we don’t allow: material that is knowingly false, defamatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, racist, sexist, homophobic. profane, sexually oriented, threatening, or invasive of a person's privacy. While we do host discussion of some topics that are a criminal offense in some locations, we permit these discussions for the sake of debate and exchange of opinion and information. We reserve the right to remove any posts that are a legal liability for Mothering.com
 
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