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- From: x73rl@ll.mit.edu ( Rick LaFave)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism,alt.abortion.inequity
- Subject: Re: Back Again To (Un)Father - NOT!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.151008.16056@ll.mit.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:10:08 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.040142.20381@zooid.guild.org>
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- Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- >peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes...
- >>payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >>>Would it be equally OK to for man to make such decisions for women?
- >
- >>What equivalent decisions would that be?
- >
- >Ah, for instance - The woman doesn't want to raise the child, but the man
- >does. Is she forced to support a child whom she doesn't want?
- >
-
- Under current laws an emphatic YES. And on to the down side...
- 1) Just another motivator for the mom to exercise her choices and either
- abort early or put the child up for adoption, in either event avoiding
- paying any money at all. Of course the man is deprived of his child, but
- oh well, thats the breaks ya'know.
- 2) If you believe that women are underpaid and/or underemployed (WRT men),
- then odds are the actual $$ amout that she would pay him is less than
- the actual $$ he would pay her, if she had instead exercised her choice
- to raise the child herself, and sought support from him. (Support is
- generally a specific fraction of gross income).
-