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- From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
- Subject: Re: Basis for Roe Decision
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- References: <1992Dec23.171241.7353@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec29.182641.22268@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan6.060819.22850@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan7.024809.22609@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 19:53:23 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.024809.22609@ncsu.edu>, dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu writes:
- |So what do you call child support laws, if not burdening men
- |in a way that women aren't? Most people do accept the unequal
- |burden placed on men by child support laws, without any second
- |thoughts.
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- What unequal burden on men? What is it that I am alleged to be
- "accepting"? Consider the following:
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- [] From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- [] Message-ID: <1i7thaINN7ik@gap.caltech.edu>
- []
- [] Quoting from the Economist, 12/26/92, p.39:
- []
- [] " Divorce also affects living standards. Men may actually see their
- [] disposable incomes rise, especially if they pay little or no child support.
- [] Official American figures for 1989 found that 41% of all divorced and
- [] seperated women living with children under 21 received nothing from their
- [] former husbands; the rest received on average just over $3000 a year.
- [] The predictable upshot is that women and children are poorer. A study
- [] of American families who have been interviewed each year since 1968 finds
- [] that separated and divorced women suffer an average fall of about 30% in
- [] their incomes in the year after their marriage breaks up. The worst hurt
- [] are middle-class wives who have stayed at home. But 31% of all wives
- [] whose incomes were above average when they were married found that their
- [] living standards fell by more than half in the first year after their
- [] marriages collapsed."
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- Looks to me like there's an unequal burden on *women*.
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- C J Silverio cj@sgi.com ceej@well.sf.ca.us
- "I see no reason to even discuss the medical risks, ramifications, and
- history of illegal abortions anyways. The issue is the life of the
- preborn." --Edward Simmons, a "pro-lifer", in talk.abortion
-