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- From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Supporting children
- Summary: "Walking wallets"?
- Keywords: FEMINISMUS DELENDUS EST
- Message-ID: <19398@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:33:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.002858.22934@rotag.mi.org> <19384@smoke.brl.mil> <4243@unisql.UUCP>
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
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- In article <4243@unisql.UUCP> wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie) writes:
-
- >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." [Matt Rosenblatt]
-
- > 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. [Wharfie]
-
- I agree with what Wharfie writes here. The current system amounts to
- *punishment* of the non-custodial parent -- usually the father -- and
- there should be no such thing as punishment where someone has done no
- wrong. Moreover, much of the so-called "child support" amounts to a
- a taking of private property, not for public use, nor for the use of
- the children whom the father has a status-based obligation to support,
- but rather for the private use of the ex-spouse who is the custodial
- parent. The taking of private property for private use is something
- prohibited by many State constitutions, but there always seems to be
- an exception when it comes to taking men's property to benefit ex-wives
- who are no longer providing *any* benefit to the men.
-
- > It's got nothing to do with sluts, Matt. [Wharfie]
-
- I'm afraid I have to disagree here. I've seen the expression,
- "walking wallets," in this thread of articles. Is it wrong to
- consider fathers as "walking wallets," required to support their
- children on account of an accident of biology?
-
- My position is that it is wrong for society, or the law, to treat
- fathers as *nothing more than* "walking wallets." It is wrong to
- deny them the presumption of joint custody. It is wrong to deny
- them visitation with the children who are their own flesh and blood,
- just to satisfy the spite and resentment of their ex-wives. It is
- wrong to order them around, as Wharfie describes, in ways that
- still-married fathers are not ordered around.
-
- My remarks about "Studs'n'Sluts" demonstrate my contempt for fathers
- who want to be *even less than* "walking wallets." These are the
- Studs who believe that since they never wanted a child to come from
- their illicit fornication relationship, they therefore have *no
- obligation at all* towards any such child they *did* conceive.
- The *minimum* that a child has a right to expect from his father
- is financial support. Morally, the Stud and the Slut owe it to
- their child to "do the right thing," meaning to get married, make
- the child legitimate, and provide him with a loving, two-parent
- home. We can't force them to do that, but we sure as hell can
- force them to provide financial support.
-
- -- Matt Rosenblatt
- (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)
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- "Die Knechtschaft dauert nur noch kurze Zeit."
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