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- From: kaskubar@mayo.edu (Bruce Kaskubar)
- Subject: Re: Something for nothing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.141434.22507@bmw.mayo.edu>
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- Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:14:34 GMT
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- David Garrod writes
- > There is a pleasure to be derived from having children, seeing
- them
- > grow etc. (Nobody, in their right minds, would choose to spend
- > $100,000 - $200,000 to raise a child unless there was enjoyment
- and
- > pleasure to be derived therefrom.) This this the quid pro quo in
- > having children.
- > However the government ignores the psychological benefit a parent
- > derives (the pleasure of seeing them grow) and concentrates only
- > on the monetary aspect.
-
- Hmmm. In accident cases it has become quite common to seek (and
- receive) monetary compensation for loss of services, loss of
- happiness, loss of all kinds of things. Maybe someone denied joint
- custody or visitation should use the same argument for loss of
- child raising pleasure.
-
- Bruce Kaskubar
- kaskubar@mayo.edu
-