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- From: sle@cray.com (Stan L. Eads)
- Subject: Re: adoption rules
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.130100.11960@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 13:00:59 CST
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- peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >
- >>peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>>Don, I've thought about it alot this weekend. I've concluded that
- >>>the *good* of protecting the father's right to stop an adoption is not
- >>>worth the *bad* of subjecting the mother and child to the risk of
- >>>injury from an abusive father. Thus I cannot condone a legal
- >>>requirement for paternal notification.
- >
- >>Fine. Will you legally permit a father to abduct a child and disappear
- >>if he knows the mother to be abusive?
- >>Do you condone a legal requirement to inform a mother where her child is?
- >
- >Are you claiming that abducting a child is equivalent to a mother
- >declining to go out of her way to notify a former sex partner that
- >she has borne a child?
-
- No, what he is saying, after thinking about it alot, is that the *good*
- of protecting the birth mother's right to her child is not worth the
- *bad* of subjecting that child to the risk of injury from an abusive
- mother. Thus, how could you possibly condone laws which would prevent
- a conscientious father from doing the right thing?
-
-
- Sincerely interested in your response.
-
- Stan... Just an interested observer of blind sexism in action
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