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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: adoption rules
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:04:12 GMT
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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?
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- I'm asking you a question, and waiting for an answer.
-
- Don
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