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  4. From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
  5. Subject: Re: adoption rules
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  11. Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:23:01 GMT
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  13.  
  14. peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
  15. >beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
  16. >
  17. >>peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
  18. >>>beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
  19. >
  20. >>Now, Michal, what do *you* propose?
  21. >
  22. >Don, I've thought about it alot this weekend.  I've concluded that 
  23. >the *good* of protecting the father's right to stop an adoption is not
  24. >worth the *bad* of subjecting the mother and child to the risk of 
  25. >injury from an abusive father.  Thus I cannot condone a legal 
  26. >requirement for paternal notification.  
  27.  
  28. Fine.  Will you legally permit a father to abduct a child and disappear
  29. if he knows the mother to be abusive?
  30.  
  31. Do you condone a legal requirement to inform a mother where her child is?
  32.  
  33.  
  34. After all, is the *good* of protecting the mother's parental rights
  35. worth the *bad* of subjecting the child and father to the risk of
  36. inquiry from an abusive mother?
  37.  
  38.  
  39. Don't hide behind "mothers don't abuse children," Michal.  You've read
  40. this newsgroup enough to have seen the statistics -- and Cal Tech isn't
  41. *that* much of an ivory tower.  Will we see another sophomoric smokescreen
  42. to hide your anti-father sentiments?
  43.  
  44. Don
  45. -- 
  46. beaver@cs.psu.edu                       Opinions from the PC-challenged
  47.