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- From: sbishop@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.child-support
- Subject: Re: IMHO
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.192813.6719@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:28:13 EST
- References: <1993Jan21.062636.6706@desire.wright.edu> <1993Jan21.164138.20759@bmw.mayo.edu>
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- Organization: Wright State University
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- In article <1993Jan21.164138.20759@bmw.mayo.edu>, kaskubar@mayo.edu (Bruce Kaskubar) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Hmmm, I see so many women on the net in other groups, that I have some
- problems with that. In fact, at our university, there are more women
- enrolled in CS classes than men.
-
- >
- > 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.
-
- My point exactly. Only problem, there are several women lurkers out
- there that are really not posting at all, and they do have legitimate
- concerns that they would like help with. But when they see the type
- of knee-jerk reaction that posts like Lisa's and mine receive, they
- are ademant about *not* posting at all. They are having a hard enough
- time as it is, they just don't feel up to dealing with hostility and
- abuse.
-
- > 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!
-
- Yep, we gotta try to look at both sides. I have made a big effort to
- try to be as fair as possible, maybe I don't come across that way, but
- I do feel sympathy for those fathers who are denied access to their
- children.
- I just wish that certain others would try to be fair also and not
- go into tirades at any woman who posts.
-
- >
- > Bruce Kaskubar
- > kaskubar@mayo.edu
-
- Sue
-