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- From: kaskubar@mayo.edu (Bruce Kaskubar)
- Subject: Re: IMHO
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.164138.20759@bmw.mayo.edu>
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- Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 16:41:38 GMT
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- sbishop@desire.wright.edu writes
- > In article <1993Jan18.194604.6459@ll.mit.edu>, yasu@ll.mit.edu
- (Alan Yasutovich) writes:
- >>
- >> It has always been mostly male. And for good reason.
- >> 90+% of NCP's are men.
- >
- > So, the group SHOULD be alt.child-support.male-only? Because
- > 90+% of NCP's are men? Yep, there you go again, saying that this
- > is only a one sided problem. I hate to keep bursting your
- > bubble, but there are *women* out there losing their homes,
- > trying to go to school, pay child-care, pay for food, work
- > full-time, and struggling along on not quite enough
- > to live on because their ex is not paying child-support.
- >
-
- Yikes, Sue. Count to ten! :-)
-
- I'd say that Alan's observation regarding the gender representation
- here is undeniable. That could be due to most people thinking this
- forum is for child support obligors (who we all know are usually
- male, which is all Alan was trying to point out). It could be that
- men (any kind of men) have more access to this fantastic electronic
- edifice than do women. If so, this category would be expected to
- fill with men's perspectives which, typically, are not that of
- child support recipients.
-
- On the other hand, Alan's statement seems to be restricted to
- obligors and there is no reason that this category shouldn't
- service both sides of child support: obligors and recipients.
- There *is* inequity on both sides, depending on the specific case.
- Those of us (like me) who have been poorly served by the existing
- system should remember to step back and realize that not everyone
- on the opposite side of child support is the same as their
- individual nemesis. Yet, some of them may be. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
-
- Bruce Kaskubar
- kaskubar@mayo.edu
-