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- From: x73rl@ll.mit.edu ( Rick LaFave)
- Subject: Re: Back Again To (Un)Father - NOT!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.142336.486@ll.mit.edu>
- Sender: news@ll.mit.edu
- Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- References: <1992Dec30.040142.20381@zooid.guild.org> <1992Dec30.151008.16056@ll.mit.edu> <168CDA23B.SURGDM@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 14:23:36 GMT
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- In article <168CDA23B.SURGDM@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
- news@mont.cs.missouri.edu respondes:
- |
- |In article <1992Dec30.151008.16056@ll.mit.edu>
- |x73rl@ll.mit.edu ( Rick LaFave) writes:
- |
- |> 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).
- |
- |
- |Your first line is completely gratuitous. Regardless of anyone's beliefs
- |concerning women's employment status, the parent who makes the most money
- |pays the most support. Say that a man and a woman make 40K/ year and 20K/year
- |respectively. Their combined income is 60K. The court will decide that
- |,under normal circumstances, the support of a child requires a certain %
- |of that income- let's say 10%, or $6000 a year, or about $500 a month. The
- |man is making 2/3s of the combined income, so his 'share' of the support
- |is also 2/3s, or ~$335.00. The woman is responsible for the remaining 1/3.
- |If the woman supplies a higher share of the combined income than the man,
- |she is responsible for the greater share of the child support.
- |
-
- I have no problems with your comments. My wording was unclear
- on purpose. By using the word 'believe' I was trying to avoid making any
- statements that could have been interpreted as fact regarding womens
- pay and employment status WRT men. This would be inviting flames from both
- sides, on womens employment status, which is not the direction I wanted to
- go with this.
- IMO women (statistically) earn less money that their spouses/SOs, although
- this is probably debatable. So I think at this point we are both saying
- the same thing.?.
-
- But now that the can of worms is opened;
- Suppose both man and women have engineering degrees (lets say 2 BSs).
- The happy couple decides that she will stay home raising kids, and he'll
- go merrily to his place of employment every day. Things turn sour - they
- divorce. Do you think he should be obliged to pay 100% as she was not
- gainfully employed at the time of divorce, or do you believe she should be
- held 'available for work' because of her degree, and have imputed income?
- (This probably belongs in alt.child-support but I get 'shoulder tapped'
- when I cross-post so... (just being cautious Muffy!))
- Just a note on the way the system works here. The more 'successful'
- he is at his job (reflectd in higher pay) the more he is penalized at
- divorce time through support.
-