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- From: regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Father Notification Reconsidered
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 12:17:21 -0700
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- In article <BuBqCM.M9K@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >>A really couldn't care less about +traditional+ view of marriage.
- >>My concen is that all partys are treated as fairly as possible.
- >Mine, too. I wouldn't personally disregard the traditional view as completely
- >as you seem to, but I am +all+ +for+ permitting flexible marriage structures.
- >The state doesn't need to predefine marriage.
-
-
- Ah, a man after my own heart. The problem, Don, is simply this: you will
- observe that the state *does* predefine marriage. It also has a long history
- of changing the rules on a whim, but that's another complaint.
-
- So, given this particular political state, what's a fellow to do?
-
- I don't see a whole lot of strong options for him, which is a crying shame,
- actually. A man's only real recourse in the current situation is a heck of
- a lot of very good communication.
-
- Even pre-conception contracts (extra-marriage) probably would be challanged
- in court if the couple wanted to separate, and I'd bet money the man would
- lose the custody battle, because even UNMARRIED folks are judged by the
- (shameful) standard of married folks, i.e., the man is judged to be less
- able to parent than the woman. You could hope for a really good attorney....
-
- That's pretty bleak to one way of thinking, yet to another it's really the
- only viable outcome since it forces the only useful approach: lots and
- lots of good communication. Think about the kids you know from divorced
- families. The ones where the parents worked out their differences had much
- less interference than those whose parents were jerks to each other. (My
- own example notwithstanding). But when one parent is determined to wrest
- the children completely away from the other parent, no one can win.
-
- Though the 'system' would currently give the female parent a better chance
- at accomplishing such a goal.
-
- >I'd rather have a complete revamping: marriage contracts should be
- >as flexible as any other contract.
-
-
- Why bother with them at all?
-
- Adrienne Regard
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