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- From: kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy)
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- Subject: Re: Duck and Jive (was Re: Pre-Sex Contract )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.235942.13722@cfctech.cfc.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:59:42 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.212743.19227@netcom.com> <1992Dec19.201811.16183@rotag.mi.org> <1992Dec20.140247.22947@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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- In article <1992Dec20.140247.22947@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
- >
- >I think you've left out a rather significant part of the whole equation. It's
- >called "child support", right? That's because there's a kid involved! All I've
- >heard you say is that the man is getting screwed right now, and we need to stop
- >that. OK, so how are you going to do that? If you stop enforcing child support
- >laws, you get stuck with two choices. Either the tax payers pay, or the kid
- >starves.
-
- Third alternative: make the woman pay for her unilateral decision. Duh.
-
- >Now I have no doubt that there are abuses on both sides of the Mom-Dad fence
- >with respect to child support. Nevertheless, the intent of these laws is to
- >ensure that the kid gets his meals paid for, etc.
-
- That may be their _intent_, but I suspect that the current laws are
- encouraging the production of illegitimate children, and therefore RAISING,
- rather than lowering, the chances of children starving, etc. If so, then the
- reforms being proposed can be justified not only on the grounds that the
- _status quo_ is blatantly unfair to men, from the standpoint of established
- principles of legal liability, but on economic grounds as well.
-
- - Kevin
-