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- From: wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Supporting children
- Keywords: FEMINISMUS DELENDUS EST
- Message-ID: <4243@unisql.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:03:25 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.034819.3106@panix.com> <1992Nov16.002858.22934@rotag.mi.org> <19384@smoke.brl.mil>
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- In article <19384@smoke.brl.mil> matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt) writes:
- > Rather, the current law lacks respect both for unbridled sexual freedom and
- >for "attempted gender equality."
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- Actually, what the law fails to provide is NOT equal protection to men
- and women, but equal protection to married men and divorced men: You can't
- force a (married) man to provide X dollars for his children. The legally required
- minimum is clothes and some food. You don't _have_ to buy toys, or send them
- to college, or carry life insurance.
-
- But that changes when you get divorced. Suddenly, you are legally required
- to maintain the children (and their custodial parent!) in a certain style, and to
- carry insurance, and to pay for their college. *That's* the injustice: child
- support should be limited to what it costs to support the child, and any extra
- should be a gift of love rather than the coercion of the State.
-
- It's got nothing to do with sluts, Matt.
-