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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Illegitimate-conception Tax
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.150418.14320@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan18.032012.19296@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan21.165017.6703@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan22.002301.28218@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:04:18 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.002301.28218@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> garrod@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (David Garrod) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.165017.6703@rotag.mi.org>, kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >> In article <1993Jan21.134202.14357@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
- >> >Kevin Darcy (kevin@rotag.mi.org) wrote:
- >> >: In article <1993Jan17.163155.20964@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >........
- >>
- >> Women seeking to go on welfare are currently forced to reveal the paternity
- >> of their children, unless there is a real danger that the father may commit
- >> violence if his identity is revealed. The civil liberties organizations have
- >> already fought that battle, and pretty much lost it. This Tax would require
- >......
- >
- > The statement that mothers requesting welfare are required to
- >reveal paternity is only true in two or three states. For the other
- >fifty-one or fifty-two jurisdictions MOTHERS requesting WELFARE are
- >NOT, repeat NOT, required to name the father.
-
- Huh? Did they repeal Senator Russell Long's 1974 Amendments to the Social
- Security Act which conditions AFDC eligibility on the co-operation of the
- mother with local authorities in locating the father of her child?
-
- After all of the Supreme Court battles, legislative battles, and administrative
- tangles over these issues in the 70's, I'd be surprised to find it had all
- been undone in the meantime. Sources I have from as recently as 1985 tend to
- indicate that those federal AFDC rules are still in effect for all states.
-
- - Kevin
-